11.019 - PDC10: Reimagining School Accountability Under ESSA: Opportunities and Challenges for Evaluating School Quality and Student Success

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This course provides researchers with development on the accountability and reporting requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and gives participants an opportunity to grapple with the key considerations and research supporting the selection of measures and indicators. The course will begin with discussion of the importance of an educational vision and theory of action for indicators to meet accountability requirements. While broadly applicable to all of the indicators under ESSA, special attention will be given to the indicator of school quality or student success (a.k.a., the “fifth” indicator). This indicator presents an opportunity to define and operationalize school quality and reporting in an accountability system.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructors

• Rolf K. Blank, NORC at the University of Chicago

• Katie H. Buckley, Transforming Education

• Susan Lyons, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.