High Stakes Accountability and Policy Implementation: Teacher Decision Making in Bilingual Classrooms in Texas

Autor/inn/en	Palmer, Deborah; Rangel, Virginia Snodgrass
Titel	High Stakes Accountability and Policy Implementation: Teacher Decision Making in Bilingual Classrooms in Texas
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 25 (2011) 4, S.614-647 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904810374848
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Education; High Stakes Tests; Decision Making; Accountability; Teaching Methods; Bilingualism; Program Implementation; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Classroom Techniques; Ethnography; Interviews; Language of Instruction; Course Content; Instructional Materials; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Verantwortung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bilingualismus; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungspraxis; Klassenführung; Ethnografie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Kursprogramm; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	This article contributes to an emerging body of literature on the impact of high stakes testing accountability policies on implementation and teaching practice. It uses a theory of implementation, sense-making, to highlight the process by which policy and context shape teacher decision making. We focus on teachers in bilingual classrooms in an urban district in Texas where we found that teachers make decisions in an environment that exerts both formal and informal pressures to limit the curriculum they offer their students and privilege test preparation. Teachers struggle to reconcile their context, constituted by their students' specific pedagogical and linguistic needs, with the pressures of their high stakes testing environment. (Contains 9 notes, 1 table, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10