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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Systems / accountability systems

Overview

  • Influence: Systems / accountability systems
  • Domain: School
  • Sub-Domain: School resourcing
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
  • Influence Definition: School districts and state education accountability systems typically including outcome achievement measures, growth measures, school climate indicators, and can involve external inspectors.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 3
  • Number of studies: 103
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 240
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.27
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Review of Educational Research Lee USA Is Test-Driven External Accountability Effective? Synthesizing the Evidence From Cross-State Causal-Comparative and Correlational Studies 2008 Accountability systems of testing on achievement 76 0 76 0.31
Journal of Educational Research Lim & Yoo Korea Meta-analysis on the effect of educational policy, accountability evaluation on the academic achievement of elementary and junior high school students. 2018 Accountability evaluation systems 20 0 157 0.19
Book Hendriks, Scheerens, & Sleegers Netherlands Effects of evaluation and assessment on student achievement: A review and meta- analysis 2018 Evaluation & assessment 7 0 7 0.10
TOTAL/AVERAGE 103 0 240 0.20
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