Using Data for Professional Development
This page at the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education includes a research brief 'Using Data about Classroom Practice and Student Work to Improve Professional Development for Educators.' You'll also find an extensive list of online resources that can help schools use data to raise achievement and improve teaching.

School Improvement in Maryland
Using Data to Improve Student Achievement is online staff development that supports principals in leading their school's improvement efforts through data-driven instructional decisions.

Education Next: Unwarranted Intrusion by RICHARD F. ELMORE
School personnel must share a coherent, explicit set of norms and expectations about what a good school looks like before they can use signals from the outside to improve student learning.

Evaluating Professional Growth and Development
The ultimate worth of professional development for teachers is the essential role it plays in the improvement of student learning.

Meeting the Needs of Low Performing Urban Schools [pdf 63pp]
The antecedents, causes, and correlates of low performing schools can be identified. Once these relationships are identified, they become the improvement targets.

Assessment of School-Based Management
Results from the Assessment of School-Based Management study are intended for policy makers, practitioners and scholars who deal with educational administration and policy.

EPA Archives: Vol. 2 No. 13 Fetler 'School Performance Reports'
State and federal government espouse school performance reports as a way to promote education reform. Some practicing educators question whether performance reports are effective.

EPA Archives: Vol. 3 No. 9 Dennis 'TQM: Brave New Reductionism'
This essay primarily explores how the theoretical roots and contemporary tropes of TQM shape a range of TQM-effects.

EPA Archives: Vol. 4 No. 17 Taylor & Nolen 'Reframing Assessment Concepts'
The question of traditional conceptualisations of validity and reliability, developed in the context of large scale, external testing, and the psychology of individual differences, for the context of the classroom is looked at.

NCPQVE Standards and Indicators
A comprehensive list of the standards and indicators agreed upon by the National Task Force of the National Consortium for Product Quality in Vocational Education. These standards guide the curriculum review process.

Inquiry into the work of OFSTED
OFSTED's Corporate Plan notes that its purpose is to encourage improvement through inspection. How do we assess the success of that?

Performance Measurement and Review, QLD Education
Queensland State Education - 2010 and Destination 2010 provide the strategic directions for the state school system and the Improvement and Accountability Framework (SIAF) provides the basis for planning, reporting and improvement work for Queensland state schools.

Rescuing Our Schools from 'Tougher Standards'
Invoking such terms as 'tougher standards,' 'accountability,' and 'raising the bar,' people with little understanding of how children learn have imposed a heavy-handed, top-down, test-driven version of school reform that is lowering the quality of education in this country.

National Assessment of Educational Progress, USA
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as 'the Nation's Report Card,' is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.