A School System Has Established Clear and Valid Objectives for Students . A school system meeting this audit standard has established a clear, valid, and measurable set of pupil standards for learning and has set the objectives into a workable framework for their attainment. Unless objectives are clear and measurable, there cannot be a cohesive effort to improve pupil achievement in the dimensions in which measurement occurs. The lack of clarity and focus denies to a school system's educators, the ability to concentrate scarce resources on priority targets. Instead, resources may be spread too thin and be ineffective in any direction.
Objectives are, therefore, essential to attaining local quality control via the school board.
This section is an overview of the findings that follow in the area of Standard Two . The details follow within separate findings. Curriculum development in the Columbus Public Schools has been sporadic over the past decade. However, these efforts have generally lacked the planning, focus, alignment, monitoring, and evaluation needed to result in increased student achievement. Low scores on the Ohio Proficiency Tests have contributed to the current district focus on increasing student performance.