Accountability Pressure, Academic Standards, and Educational Triage

Vertical Scaling in Standards-Based Educational Assessment and Accountability Systems

This paper describes vertical scaling as a method for linking a set of test forms of increasing difficulty, and explores the applicability of these methods for standards-based educational achievement tests under status-based and growth-based accountability priorities. The purpose of the paper is to inform state policy-makers and assessment and accountability specialists about vertical scaling m...

Disaster Triage System and Educational Strategies

Background: One of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. They must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. Methods: Delphi technique was used in this research. Firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. They...

Neurology, neurosurgery, controlled trials and academic accountability.

Measuring educational standards

Every Summer, when English public examination results appear there is a debate within the media about whether ‘educational standards’ are changing. The above remarks are typical; the first reflects the suspicions of those who believe in a professional conspiracy to prove that standards of performance are rising, and the second reflects a politician’s determination to pretend that everything has...

disaster triage system and educational strategies

background: one of the medical team’s responsibilities is to teach the methods of rescue and aid necessary for casualties who have been injured in disasters. they must be taken away of the place of disaster, transferred, categorized and cured. methods: delphi technique was used in this research. firstly, a number of questions were framed and sent to a number of experts of different majors. they...