Alignment and Accountability in Policy Design and Implementation
The Common Core State Standards and Implementation Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9734854 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia E Coburn (Northwestern University, Evanston, Il, corresponding author), Heather C Hill, Heather Hill (0000-0001-5181-1573, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), James P Spillane (0000-0001-5744-9085, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 243-251 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x16651080 |
| OpenAlex | W2367509196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 59 |
Both the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and recent efforts to hold schools and teachers accountable have been hotly debated among practitioners, policymakers, and the public at large. Much of the debate centers on the merits and demerits of these initiatives and the general approach they represent to reforming teaching and learning. In this article, we focus on a different issue, that is, the opportunity to advance research on policy implementation afforded by the intertwined nature of CCSS and accountability efforts. Arguing that it is essential for stakeholders, regardless of their stance on either reform, to understand whether and how both influence classroom teaching and learning, we outline elements of a research agenda to generate knowledge important to the design of future instructional policies. For this to happen, we argue that an implementation research agenda needs to build on (rather than reinvent) lessons learned from the past quarter century of implementation scholarship on instructional policy. To that end, we review theoretical and empirical insights from implementation research on standards-based reform and outline specific avenues for potential theory testing research on educational policy implementation
Academic standards · Accountability · Educational research · Engineering ethics · Evidence-based policy · Higher education · Pedagogy · Policy analysis · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Public Administration · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Curricular-credential decoupling
Críticas a las políticas de rendición de cuentas según lo que el profesorado chileno de secundaria consideran justo en educación
Principal evaluation in the United States
Rethinking the Use of Tests
Compliance behavior with Indonesian language in local government administration
Social networks and policy coherence
Planning and Strategic Management of Higher Education Considering the Vision of Latin America
Principals’ sense-making of resource allocation within a national reform implementation
High-stakes accountability policies and local adaptation
After the Race to the Top
The Perceptions and Experiences of Faculty Implementing Florida’s Developmental Education Reform
Trends and exemplary practices of STEM teacher professional development programs in K-12 contexts
Teacher evaluation policy in Arab-Israeli schools through the lens of micropolitics
“Are You Saying That We’re Racist?”
Connecting Policy to Practice
Seeing the Brain, Scientizing the Teacher Knowledge
Developing and supporting the Next Generation Science Standards
Science Teachers' Management of Conflicting Institutional Logics
Leadership for Family and Community Engagement
An interdisciplinary perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of the International Dyslexia Association definition of dyslexia
Affordances of narrative and numerical data
Feeding back research results – Changes in principal and teacher narratives about student participation
Differing Views of Equity
Making sense of testing
Insights from the Swedish schools inspectorate’s injunctions – 15 years of inspecting preschool principals’ systematic quality work
Exploring Head Start teacher and leader perceptions of the Pre-K Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a part of the Head Start Designation Renewal System
How do teacher educators use professional standards in their practice
Implementing education system reform
Implementation of Evidence‐based Practice in Human Service Organizations
What’s the problem with ‘policy alignment’? The complexities of national reform in Australia’s federal system
Professional Capital as Political Capital
A Cognitive Perspective on Policy Implementation
A Starting Point
Reform at the Intersection of Loose Coupling and Pedagogic Modalities
New Assessments and Teacher Accountability
Did States’ Adoption of More Rigorous Standards Lead to Improved Student Achievement? Evidence From a Comparative Interrupted Time Series Study of Standards-Based Reform
Advanced Content Coverage at Kindergarten
Access, Activation, and Influence
Learning From Standards Deviations
The Good Struggle” of Flexible Specificity
From Interpretation to Instructional Practice
Measuring Organizational Learning Outcomes Through Big Ideas
The Effects of Race to the Top on Student Achievement
Policy design and enactment in a federalist school system
Social Science-Based Pathways to Reduce Social Inequality in Youth Outcomes and Opportunities at Scale
The Ordeal of Equality
Learning Policy
Standards Deviation
(In)Fidelity
Teachers’ Professional Development in a Climate of Educational Reform
How Can Comprehensive School Reform Models Be Successfully Implemented?
Does External Accountability Affect Student Outcomes? A Cross-State Analysis
Chapter 6
A Revolution in One Classroom
High-Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools
External reform initiatives and teachers' efforts to reconstruct their practice
Collective Sensemaking about Reading
Accountability, incentives and behavior
Accountability Texas-Style
Left Behind by Design
Hybridization, Resistance, and Compliance
The usefulness of game theory as a method for policy evaluation
Curriculum Materials in Mathematics Education Reform
Teacher Identity and Agency in School Worlds
Duet or Duel? A Portrait of Two Logics of Reading Instruction in an Urban School District
Instructional Alignment under No Child Left Behind
Reading Coaches and the Relationship Between Policy and Practice
Predictable Failure of Federal Sanctions-Driven Accountability for School Improvement—And Why We May Retain It Anyway
High-Stakes Testing and Curricular Control
Private Asset or Public Good
Educational Policy Implementation in a Shifting Political Climate
The Ebb and Flow of Social Network Ties Between District Leaders Under High-Stakes Accountability
The Changing Roles of Teachers in an Era of High-Stakes Accountability
Power, Learning, and Legitimation
Learning From Experience
The Myth Incarnate
Curricular Alignment
What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
Focus, Fiddle, and Friends
School Choice or Schools' Choice
Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Beyond Decoupling
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |