This paper introduces the new Massachusetts Performance Assessment for Leaders (PAL) and uses critical policy analysis to re-examine the validity evidence (using the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing and a theory of multicultural validity) for the use and interpretation of the PAL in regards to emerging school leadership. Data sources include two years of PAL test documentation plus candidate surveys and interviews with program directors. The author’s role as a test user, faculty instructor, and certified test scorer afforded access to student work, student communications, scorer network training, and state department of education communications and meetings. The paper challenges the content validity, raises questions...
School leadership is strategic for educational policy. Specialized research has produced, over the l...
Since the 1990s, evaluation instruments applied by areas outside the school have multiplied in the c...
The present research is a follow-up study of earlier published analyses that looked at the relations...
New Hampshire’s Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) pilot received a waiver from f...
This study examines one part of a validity argument for portfolio assessments of teaching practice u...
The Scylla and Charybdis in this discussion of teacher evaluation are standardized achievement test ...
In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote stud...
This special issue advances the discussion of redesigning assessment and accountability that began i...
As schools across the country prepare for new standards under the Common Core, states are moving tow...
Teacher satisfaction is a key affective reaction to working conditions and an important predictor of...
This article presents the results of a comparative and critical study of the competency standards of...
In recent years, most U.S. states have revised policy by providing schools at least some flexibility...
Although principal professional development (PPD) has been proven to improve school performance at v...
[ES] Este artículo presenta el proceso de diseño, construcción y validación de un cuestionario par...
This study examines the trends of the U.S. states’ reading and math proficiency standards before and...
School leadership is strategic for educational policy. Specialized research has produced, over the l...
Since the 1990s, evaluation instruments applied by areas outside the school have multiplied in the c...
The present research is a follow-up study of earlier published analyses that looked at the relations...
New Hampshire’s Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) pilot received a waiver from f...
This study examines one part of a validity argument for portfolio assessments of teaching practice u...
The Scylla and Charybdis in this discussion of teacher evaluation are standardized achievement test ...
In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote stud...
This special issue advances the discussion of redesigning assessment and accountability that began i...
As schools across the country prepare for new standards under the Common Core, states are moving tow...
Teacher satisfaction is a key affective reaction to working conditions and an important predictor of...
This article presents the results of a comparative and critical study of the competency standards of...
In recent years, most U.S. states have revised policy by providing schools at least some flexibility...
Although principal professional development (PPD) has been proven to improve school performance at v...
[ES] Este artículo presenta el proceso de diseño, construcción y validación de un cuestionario par...
This study examines the trends of the U.S. states’ reading and math proficiency standards before and...
School leadership is strategic for educational policy. Specialized research has produced, over the l...
Since the 1990s, evaluation instruments applied by areas outside the school have multiplied in the c...
The present research is a follow-up study of earlier published analyses that looked at the relations...