J. M. Beach

Can We Measure What Matters Most?

Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools don't work? What if educational accountability tools don't actually measure what they're supposed to? What if accountability data isn't valid, or worse, what if it's meaningless? What if administrators don't know how to use accountability tools or correctly analyze the problematic data these tools produce? What if we can't measure, let alone accurately assess, what matters most with teaching or student learning. How is a business-model of economic efficiency supposed to increase the competing, and perhaps mutually exclusive, ends of schooling, such as human development, student learning, personal satisfaction, social mobility, and economic growth? What if students don't learn much in schools? What if schools were never designed to produce student learning? This book will answer these questions with a wide, interdisciplinary range of the latest scientific research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781475862287
• ISBN-10: 1475862288
• Artikelnr.: 61431933

Autorenporträt

J. M. Beach is the founder and Director of 21st Century Literacy, a non-profit organization focused on literacy education and teacher training. He was a lecturer in higher education for over 20 years in the U.S., South Korea, and China.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface: We Aren't Measuring What Matters Most
Introduction: Investigating the Myths of Measurement the Management of
Schools
Chapter 1: A Different Kind of Reform: The Neoliberal Gospel of
EducationChapter 2: Getting Our Money's Worth: A Short History of
Accountability Movement in the U.S.
Chapter 3: What Do Grades Measure? Investigating Grades as an
Accountability Metric
Chapter 4: Education as a Social Practice: The Foundations of Teaching and
Learning
Chapter 5: Nurture and Nature: The Complex Ecology of Student Learning (On
What Teachers Can and Cannot Do...)
Chapter 6: A Managerial Coup d'état
Conclusion: Can We De-School Our Schools?
Epilogue: Learning to Learn: Revising the Liberal Arts
Preview: Volume 2: The Myths of Measurement and Meritocracy: Why
Accountability Metrics in Higher Education are Unfair and Increase
Inequality
References
Index
About the Author