부산대학교 도서관

This study examined the degree of understanding among district and school level personnel in New Mexico regarding recent changes implemented in the State's accountability reporting system. The results are being used to design two further research activities: one to explore the relationship between accountability information and classroom practice, and a second to examine the use of regression models as a technique for examining schooling outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with district and school administrators in two urban and in four rural school districts. Two of the rural districts were from the lowest spending districts and two from among the highest spending districts in the state. In the rural school districts accountability reporting was most commonly assigned to an existing central office staffer as an add-on responsibility. Urban districts were able to designate an individual with particular and primary responsibility for accountability reporting. As a result, central staffers in the urban districts were more fully informed about changed to the accountability system. An appendix contains the interview schedule. (Contains 18 references.) (DFR)