Accountability, Assessment, and Teacher Commitment : Lessons from Kentucky's Reform Efforts

by Whitford, Betty Lou; Jones, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780791444092
• ISBN10: 0791444090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Education scholars, administrators, and classroom practitioners offer essays, case studies, and proposals in the wake of a 1990 state law that makes high-stakes accountability the centerpiece of education reform. On levels of class and schools, they present various perspectives on the mandated approach to accountability, suggest some alternative routes to the same goal, and generally record their reactions and experiences under the new regime.

Author Biography

Betty Lou Whitford is Professor of Education and Director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ken Jones is Mathematics Specialist at Gheens Academy/Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
Foreword	xi
Patricia A. Wasley
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
Betty Lou Whitford
Ken Jones
Part I Overview
Kentucky Lesson: How High Stakes School Accountability Undermines a Performance-Based Curriculum Vision	9	(18)
Betty Lou Whitford
Ken Jones
Part II Inside Schools and Classrooms
Constructs from the Classroom: A Perspective on Reform	27	(22)
Terry I. Brooks
A Multi-Age/Multi-Ability Primary Classroom in Action	49	(22)
Christy D. McGee
``The More Mathematics You Know, the Better Your Life is Going to Be''	71	(18)
Ken Jones
Betty Lou Whitford
Teacher Community and Commitment: A Case Study of a High School Social Studies Department	89	(20)
Letitia Hochstrasser Fickel
The Tortuous Journey toward School Reform: A Middle School's Efforts within the Context of a State-Mandated, High-Stakes Accountability System	109	(18)
Jan Calvert
Donna Gaus
Gordon Ruscoe
Teacher Responses to Rewards and Sanctions: Effects of and Reactions to Kentucky's High-Stakes Accountability Program	127	(22)
Patricia J. Kannapel
Pamelia Coe
Lola Aagaard
Beverly D. Moore
Cynthia A. Reeves
Part III Alternative Approaches to Accountability
A Teacher Appraisal Invention Process: Developing Commitment to Accountability	149	(14)
Linda Shelor
The View from Maine: Developing Learner-Centered Accountability in a Local Control State	163	(16)
David Ruff
Debra Smith
Lynne Miller
A New Look at School at School Accountability	179	(22)
Anne Wheelock
Part IV Reactions
State and School Level Accountability Dilemmas	201	(10)
Jon Snyder
Success Needs Time to Grow	211	(8)
A. Richardson Love Jr.
The Need to Broaden Accountability in Order to Foster Leadership	219	(6)
Marilyn Hohmann
Reaching All Students: The Real Challenge of Reform	225	(8)
Dick Corbett
Part V Summary and Conclusions
The Next Generation of School Accountability	233	(14)
Ken Jones
Betty Lou Whitford
About the Authors	247	(6)
Name Index	253	(4)
Subject Index	257