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Pandora's box : accountability and performance standards in vocational education

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  • "Accountability and performance standards in vocational education"@en

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  • "This report explores educational accountability in the United States, specifically accountability in vocational education. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the history of evaluation activity in federal educational programs and sets the major accountability, evaluation, and performance provisions of the 1990 Perkins legislation in that context. Section 2 presents an analytical framework for understanding accountability and performance standards. It highlights the relationship between performance measures and educational accountability. Section 3 draws on interviews with state and local officials to describe how they understand the new requirements and to assess their organizational capacity to implement them. It identifies several impediments to effective state-local cooperation in developing systems of performance measurement: lack of resources and personnel; insufficient attention to program quality and relevance in some local education authorities; and possibilities of conflicts of interest among students, educators, and employers. Section 4 draws on interviews with federal officials, in Congress and the U.S. Department of Education, to explain their understanding of these new provisions. Section 5 summarizes the implications of this study for accountability in vocational education and recommends that federal and state accountability efforts focus on local program improvement, not on creation of a national database. The report includes 31 references. (YLB)"
  • "This report is the result of a study of accountability in vocational education, conducted by RAND for the National Center for Research in Education (NCRVE). The study had two goals: (1) to understand the intentions of the people who formulated and enacted the new requirements for vocational education performance standards and accountability continued in the Perkins Act; and (2) to understand how those requirements would affect state and local accountability processes in vocational education. The study focused on the "to whom" side of accountability, trying to determine who needed evidence about the performance of vocational education and how they would use that evidence. The project consisted of a set of interviews and case studies at the Federal, state, and local levels about performance information on vocational education: who needs it, what should it look like, and how will it be used. Case study states included Maryland, Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, and Indiana. The message that emerged is that the main focus of accountability in vocational education is local, and that the Perkins Act requirements for new performance measures and standards are meant to strengthen local accountability, not to weaken it or to create new channels of reporting to the Federal government."

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