How Do Rural Schools Fare Under a Highstakes Testing Regime

dc.creator	Beck, F. D.
dc.creator	Shoffstall, G. W.
dc.date	2005-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:20:53Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:20:53Z
dc.identifier	1551-0670
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/91d6c987ea5f403cb085936f805ae76a
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28576
dc.description	Analyses of data from the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) show how strongly associated the socioeconomic characteristics of schools are with school outcomes. Factors such as the percentage of students who are poor, percentage black, and the property values within a district explain over 70% of the variance in school outcomes. However, the state has created a high-stakes designation system, using yearly test scores as a snapshot of school performance. Schools would be sanctioned or rewarded more on levels of poverty and racial characteristics than on gain scores. We extend this research by linking county level data to the 2000 ISAT data for Illinois’ public schools. We examine the extent to which rurality matters for school outcomes and the extent to which the Illinois’ school designation system unfairly targets poor rural schools. We find that rural schools in Illinois perform better than their suburban or urban counterparts on the state’s standardized test. Despite this, the high stakes test and designation system being considered by the state will unfairly benefit suburban schools.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Maine College of Education & Human Development
dc.relation	http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/20-14.htm
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1551-0670
dc.source	Journal of Research in Rural Education, Vol 20, Iss 14 (2005)
dc.subject	rural schools
dc.subject	rural education
dc.subject	high-stakes testing
dc.subject	school accountability
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	How Do Rural Schools Fare Under a Highstakes Testing Regime
dc.type	article