
The Infrastructure of Accountability
Data Use and the Transformation of American Education
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-61250-531-2 (ISBN)
Description
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."
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."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61250-531-2 (9781612505312)
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Dorothea Anagnostopoulos | Stacey A. Rutledge | Rebecca Jacobsen
The Infrastructure of Accountability
Data Use and the Transformation of American Education
E-Book
04/2013
Harvard Education Press
€28.99
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Persons
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.
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.