Resources: American School Accreditation

Visiting Accreditation: Strengthening the Regional Accreditation Process.
Thomas A. Wilson. LAB at Brown, March 1999.
This is the report from the multi-year field study of how to strengthen American secondary school accreditation in New England, carried out by Thomas A. Wilson under the auspices of the LAB at Brown. NEASC enthusiastically received the report and implemented many of its recommendations. The study was an important resource for the development of PBI and the SALT school visit. It served to show that the basic methodology underlying British inspection was also underlying American accreditation, mitigating obvious concerns that PBI might be too "English" for American institutions, values and accountability practices. View »

Accreditation Standards and School Improvement: Putting Methodology in its Proper Place.
Thomas A. Wilson. NCATE, Washington D.C., 1998.
This monograph, appearing in a NCATE publication, examines how starting with the methodology for measuring institutional performance defines the nature of standards that can be established. It argues that, if a performance assessment system is to support the growth of institutional performance, it must begin with the purpose of the assessment, rather than with the available methods of assessment. Order from publisher »

 

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