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Owner: Mary Killeen
Owner Email: mwilso61@fau.edu
Paper Title: Data Usage for Accountability: Two Decades of Incentive Inequity
Session Title: Examining Equity and Accountability Systems
Paper Type: Paper
Presentation Date: 4/12/2024
Presentation Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descriptors: Accountability, Assessment, Evaluation
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Mary Killeen, School District of Palm Beach County; Meredith L. Mountford, Florida Atlantic University; John D. Morris, Florida Atlantic University
Unit: Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools
Abstract: This quantitative study of 106 Florida elementary schools found that the state grading system consistently rewarded schools with the lowest percentages of impoverished students with the largest cumulative monetary awards over 21 years of its incentive program. The study also found that the school grades of impoverished schools would improve if evaluation systems utilizing only learning gains were employed. These findings were then aligned to Effective Schools Research and analyzed to provide insight and recommendations for changes in the evaluation of schools.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2111517