A driving force in the creation of the Educational Value-Added system is:

a) schools serving disadvantaged students face greater difficulties in reaching standards.
b) different assessments were needed to assess the arts.
c) there needed to be standardized accountability.
d) the implementation of No Child Left Behind.


a A key issue in all assessment for accountability is dealing with the fact that schools are not equal in their student inputs. Education Value Added system has the driving force of determining how much learning a school has added to its students.

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