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Author Ryan, Katherine E

Title The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (609 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part I -- The Educational Evaluation Context; Chapter 1 -- Globalization and Policy Research in Education; Chapter 2 -- Globalizing Influences on the Western Evaluation Imaginary; Chapter 3 -- Fundamental Evaluation Issues in a Global Society; Part II -- The Role of Science in Educational Evaluation; Chapter 4 -- Evaluation, Method Choices, and Pathways to Consequences: Trying to Make Sense of How Evaluation Can Contribute to Sensemaking; Chapter 5 -- Randomized Experiments and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Educational Research
Chapter 6 -- Enhancing Impact Evidence on How Global Education Initiatives Work: Theory, Epistemological Foundations, and Principles for Applying Multiphase, Mixed Method DesignsChapter 7 -- The Evaluation of the Georgia Pre-K Program: An Example of a Scientific Evaluation of an Early Education Program; Chapter 8 -- Globalization-Blessing and Bane in Empirical Evaluation: Lessons in Three Acts; Chapter 9 -- Science-Based Educational Evaluation and Student Learning in a Global Society: A Critical Appraisal; Part III -- Educational Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Monitoring
Chapter 10 -- Evaluation, Accountability, and Performance Measurement in National Education Systems: Trends, Methods, and IssuesChapter 11 -- A Precarious Balance: Educational Evaluation Capacity Building in a Globalized Society; Chapter 12 -- International Assessments and Indicators: How Will Assessments and Performance Indicators Improve Educational Policies and Practices in a Globalized Society?; Chapter 13 -- Exemplary Case: Implementing Large-Scale Assessment of Education in Mexico; Chapter 14 -- Inquiry-Minded District Leaders: Evaluation as Inquiry, Inquiry as Practice
Chapter 15 -- Where Global Meets Local: Contexts, Constraints, and Consensus in School Evaluation in IrelandChapter 16 -- Accountability and Capacity Building: Can They Live Together?; Part IV -- Educational Evaluation as Learning and Discovery; Chapter 17 -- Learning-Oriented Educational Evaluation in Contemporary Society; Chapter 18 -- Meaningfully Engaging With Difference Through Mixed Methods Educational Evaluation; Chapter 19 -- Case Study Methods in Educational Evaluation; Chapter 20 -- Developing a Community of Practice: Learning and Transformation Through Evaluation
Chapter 21 -- Learning-in-(Inter)Action: A Dialogical Turn to Evaluation and LearningChapter 22 -- Educational Evaluation as Mediated Mutual Learning; Part V -- Educational Evaluation in a Political World; Chapter 23 -- Own Goals: Democracy, Evaluation, and Rights in Millennium Projects; Chapter 24 -- Reclaiming Knowledge at the Margins: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in the Current Evaluation Moment; Chapter 25 -- Evaluation for and by Navajos: A Narrative Case of the Irrelevance of Globalization
Chapter 26 -- Dialogue, Deliberation, and Democracy in Educational Evaluation: Theoretical Arguments and a Case Narrative
Summary The Handbook of Educational Evaluation brings together the experience of top evaluation leaders around the world to present and discuss the core methods and applications of educational evaluation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Educational evaluation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
Educational evaluation
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Cousins, J. (John) Bradley
ISBN 9781483303482
1483303489
9781483343457
1483343456
1452226601
9781452226606