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ERIC Number: EJ523949
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0739-0408
District-Level Report Cards Are More Smoke Than Fire.
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others
Tennessee Education, v24 n3 p12-25 Win 1995
The relationships among factors reported on report cards developed for local school districts in Tennessee and how they related to student outcomes were studied. The study revealed few, if any, straight-line relationships between inputs and outputs reported. Report cards are vastly overrated as indicators of educational quality. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Predictor Variables, Profiles, Report Cards, School Districts, Student Characteristics
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Tennessee
Note: Version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April 1992). Journal availability: Univ. of Tennessee at Knoxville, College of Education, 212 Claxton, Knoxville, TN 37996-3400.