9780309128148 - Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (1 risultati)

Blanda. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Nuevo. No Aplica (illustratore). 0. Does rewarding or penalizing students, teachers, or schools contribute to improvements in education? This intriguing question lies at the heart of many programs and policies at the federal and state levels to improve education in the nation?s schools. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education takes a hard look at that question. It examines the affects of test-based incentive programs like No Child Left Behind, high school exit exams, techer perfomance pay, and direct student rewardas. Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education lokks across al the available rigorous studies of the wide range of different incentive programs that have been implemented across the country. In reviews and synthesizes the research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. It considers wheters there are particular circumstances in wich test-based incentives may have a positive - or a negative - effect on student learning. For educators, policy makers, and school administrators, Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. For researchers, it identifies the most importnt directions for further research into the complicated issueof incentives and how they work. 220 gr. Libro.