The Impact of Summer Learning Loss on Measures of School Performance

Andrew McEachin () and Allison Atteberry ()
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Andrew McEachin: RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA 90401
Allison Atteberry: School of Education University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, CO 80309

Education Finance and Policy, 2017, vol. 12, issue 4, 468-491

Abstract: State and federal accountability policies are predicated on the ability to estimate valid and reliable measures of school impacts on student learning. The typical spring-to-spring testing window potentially conflates the amount of learning that occurs during the school year with learning that occurs during the summer. We use a unique dataset to explore the potential for students’ summer learning to bias school-level value-added models used in accountability policies and research on school quality. The results of this paper raise important questions about the design of performance-based education policies, as well as schools’ role in the production of students’ achievement.

Date: 2017
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