Limitations in the Use of Achievement Tests as Measures of Educators’ Productivity.
Test-based accountability rests on the assumption that accountability for scores on tests will provide needed incentives for teachers to improve student performance. Evidence shows, however, that simple test-based accountability can generate perverse incentives and seriously inflated scores. This pa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 752 - 778 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall2002
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