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ERIC Number: EJ556842
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Kentucky's Conflicting Reform Principles: High-Stakes School Accountability and Student Performance Assessment.
Jones, Ken; Whitford, Betty Lou
Phi Delta Kappan, v79 n4 p276-81 Dec 1997
Designed to monitor school accountability, KIRIS (Kentucky Instructional Results Information System) offers a powerful lesson about how high-stakes accountability systems can distort and undermine original visions for effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. Changes have been influenced by several interconnected elements: outcome definition, student assessment practicalities, local curriculum control, the accountability index, expected improvement rate, and rewards and sanctions. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests, Testing Problems
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Kentucky Education Reform Act 1990; Kentucky Instructional Results Information System