Challenges Posed by Sharing Authority Across Political Boundaries

Challenges Posed by Sharing Authority Across Political Boundaries Joseph Martineau Center for Assessment September 18, 2015 RILS, Boston What Do We Mean by Political Boundaries Could have used Power Boundaries or Authority Boundaries

Horizontal boundaries Classroom to classroom School to school District to district Vertical boundaries Classroom to school School to district District to state

Theory of Change Buy In vs. Standardization Compromise! 2 Sharing Authority Across Political Boundaries Three Key Challenges Coherence Quality control

Local capacity and assessment literacy Why Spend Time on this Topic? Coherence, Quality Control, and Capacity dont happen on their own Initial plans to build in coherence, quality, and capacity/literacy are insufficient Initial implementation with coherence, quality, and capacity/literacy are insufficient 3

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What do we privilege? Scott Local buy in that information is useful Bottom up, negotiate a way to achieve quality and standardization Me Quality through reasonable standardization Top down, negotiate a way to achieve local buy in Requires compromise, but how do you achieve compromise that

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Force Report Report 18 Sharing Authority Across Political Boundaries Comprehensive, negotiated plans with buy in across horizontal and vertical entities are needed for Initial implementation

Ongoing monitoring Continuous process and product improvement This mornings session is built around negotiating shared authority across political boundaries to design, monitor, and improve: Coherence and comprehensiveness across entities from planning and implementation Quality control in implementation Build local capacity and assessment literacy before and during

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