Accountability pressures overshadowed the survey's improvement potential without reducing its predictive power¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Some principals depicted improvement priorities as heavily influenced by SQRP accountability, and some teachers reported accountability affected their survey responses; predictive power was unaffected but improvement use was overshadowed. → Title as printed 2021

Evidence¶

Title as printed 2021¶

Title as printed. (2021). University of Chicago Consortium on School Research press release. https://consortium.uchicago.edu

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Qualitative interview study (2019) found accountability shaped principals' priorities and some teachers' survey responses; the release concludes "the potential for survey results to inform school improvement was often overshadowed" by accountability pressures. No effect size is printed.

"while the predictive power of the survey was not affected, the potential for survey results to inform school improvement was often overshadowed by the incentives and pressures created by the survey’s inclusion in accountability policies."

Discussion¶

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