Overview
The Infrastructure of Accountability brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education. Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have been utterly reshaped by the demands of test-based accountability. Interest in large-scale performance data has reached an unprecedented high point. Yet most education researchers focus primarily on questions of data quality and the effectiveness of data use. In this bold and thought-provoking volume, the contributors look beneath the surface of all this activity to uncover the hidden infrastructure that supports the production, flow, and use of data in education, and explore the impact of these large-scale information systems on American schooling. These systems, the editors note, “sit at the juncture of technical networks, work practices, knowledge production, and moral order.”
Full Product Details
Author: Dorothea Anagnostopoulos ,
Stacey A. Rutledge ,
Rebecca Jacobsen ,
Jeffrey R. Henig
Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9781612505312
ISBN 10: 1612505317
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 April 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The time is ripe for an evidence-and theory-based conversation about the future of accountability policies in education, and this book should be used to inform this conversation. I only hope that policymakers and the individuals and organizations that advise them will read this collection and pay attention to the existence and implications both positive and negative of the infrastructure of performance-based accountability systems as they consider the best way to move forward. Katharine O. Strunk, Teachers College Record
More than just supplying readers with a general knowledge of accountability, the diverse perspectives provided in this book allow for a holistic understanding by making visible the 'practical, political and moral contours and consequences of this infrastructure.' Kenneth E. Hoover, School Administrator
Author Information
Dorothea Anagnostopoulos is an associate professor in the department of teacher education at Michigan State University, USA. Stacey A. Rutledge is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at Florida State University, USA. Rebecca Jacobsen is an assistant professor in the department of teacher education at Michigan State University, USA.
