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Welcome to AccountabilityWorks.org |
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AccountabilityWorks (AW) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting educators, parents, and policymakers interested in quality assessments and other accountability systems.
AW supports well-designed and effectively executed systems that help those involved with elementary and secondary education to ensure that students achieve academic success. We emphasize careful development because poorly designed or implemented systems--however well-intentioned--can lead to results that are self-defeating, wasteful or unfair.
Most important, we believe that the most effective type of accountability is that which is self-imposed; goals, measures and interventions that are adopted directly by educators, parents and students often result in the greatest benefit.
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Recent Activities
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- Pardon our appearance, we are redesigning our website.
- Supported in part by a US Dept. of Ed. grant, AW is developing a Web-based arithmetic assessment tool. To find out about Arithmetic Testing OnLine (ATOL) go here.
- In partnership with ETS, one of AW's largest ongoing activities is the Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) designed to measure English proficiency of English Language Learners. More information may be found here.
- With Pioneer Institute, AW is developing policy briefs on differential compensation for educators in critical shortage areas. This activity is supported through a grant from the Broad Foundation. More information to come in the fall of 2008.
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