Educational indicator system for monitoring Chicago school reform progress¶

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Description¶

A proposed system to monitor critical aspects of schooling and regularly report to diverse audiences, including individual schools charting their own progress and the broader public concerned with citywide educational conditions. The Consortium proposes developing and implementing this indicator system as a core part of its continuing work, grounded in a conceptual framework generated through stakeholder consultation. It is intended to answer the recurring stakeholder question of how the reform effort is doing.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Information must be systematic and pertinent to an overall understanding of the school, since isolated facts and anecdotes will not help local policy makers understand their school's problems and possible solutions

Constraints¶

• Data should in principle be relevant to measuring progress toward goals stated in each school's School Improvement Plan

Target Learners¶

• Chicago Public Schools students and the school communities serving them

Target Learning Goals¶

• monitoring student learning, school program quality, and governance reform progress

Related Elements¶

• Individualized school reports (ISRs) tracking schools on core research-linked indicators
• Consortium on Chicago School Research five-year research agenda 2004-2008 by topic and study type
• Evidence-based public informing agenda on reform progress and challenges

Examples¶

• Monitoring Progress

Key Sources¶

• Consortium on Chicago School Research. (1991). Achieving School Reform in Chicago: What We Need To Know — A Research Agenda. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/achieving-school-reform-chicago-what-we-need-know