The Sage international handbook of educational evaluation

The Handbook of Educational Evaluation" brings together the experience of topevaluation leaders around the world to present and discuss the core methods and applications of educational evaluation, particularly as they relate to subsequent policy- and decision-making in all educational contexts. The volume is shaped by core guiding questions that seek to understand issues such as changein educational evaluation, evidence-based research, the relationship between evaluation and audit cultures, stakeholders in educational evaluation, accountability and assessment, and, ultimately, what the obligations and responsibilities of educational evaluators are in any given setting or context. A key theme that runs throughout this comprehensive volume includes how globalization isshaping international policies for educational evaluation, assessment, and testing as well as curriculum and instruction. The volume is invaluable for graduate students, professionals, and researchers in evaluation, particularly educational or policy evaluation. INDICE: 1. Globalization and Policy Research in Education - Fazal Rizvi 2.Globalizing Influences on the Western Evaluation Imaginary - Thomas A. Schwandt 3. Fundamental Evaluation Issues in a Global Society - Nick L. Smith 4. Evaluation, method choices, and pathways to consequences: Trying to making sense of how evaluation can contribute to sensemaking - Melvin M. Mark 5. RandomizedExperiments and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Educational Research - Peter M.Steiner, Angela Wroblewski & Thomas D. Cook 6. Enhancing Impact Evidence on How Global Education Initiatives Work: Theory, Epistemological Foundations and Principles for Applying Multi-phase, Mixed Method Designs - Madhabi Chatterji 7. The Evaluation of the Georgia Pre-K Program: An Example of a Scientific Evaluation of an Early Education Program - Gary T. Henry & Dana K. Rickman 8. Globalization-Blessing and Bane in Empirical Evaluation: Lessons in Three Acts - Jacob Marszalek & Debra D. Bragg 9. Science-Based Educational Evaluation and Student Learning in a Global Society: A Critical Appraisal - Lois-ellin Datta 10. Evaluation, Accountability and Performance Measurement in National Education Systems: Trends, Methods, and Issues - Katherine E. Ryan 11. Evaluation Capacity Building - Miri Levin-Rozalis, Barbara Rosenstein, Israel & Brad Cousins 12. International assessments and indicators: How will assessments and performance indicators improve educational policies and practices in a globalized society? - Claudia V. Tamassia & Raymond J. Adams 13. Exemplary Case: Implementing large scale assessment of education in Mexico - Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour & Thomas E. Grayson 14. Inquiry-Minded District Leaders: Evaluation as inquiry, inquiry as practice - Sharon F. Rallis & Matthew Militello 15. Where Global Meets Local: Contexts, Constraints, and Consensus in School Evaluation in Ireland - Gerry McNamara & Joe O?Hara 16. Accountability and capacity building: Can they live together? - David Nevo 17. Learning-oriented educational evaluation in contemporary society - Peter Dahler-Larsen 18. Meaningfully Engaging withDifference Through Mixed Methods Educational Evaluation - Jennifer C. Greene 19. Case Study Methods in Educational Evaluation - Linda Mabry 20. Developing a Community of Practice: Learning and Transformation through Evaluation - Christina A. Christie & Brock M. Klein 21. Learning-in-(inter)action: a dialogicalturn to evaluation and learning - Theo J. H. Niessen & Tineke A. Abma 22. Educational Evaluation as Mediated Mutual Learning - John Elliott 23. Own Goals: Democracy, Evaluation and Rights in Millenium projects - Saville Kushner 24. Reclaiming knowledge at the margins: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in the current evaluation moment - Rodney K. Hopson 25. Evaluation for and by Navajos: A Narrative Case of the Irrelevance of Globalization - Stafford Hood 26. Dialogue, deliberation and democracy in educational evaluation - theoretical arguments and a case narrative - Ove Karlsson Vestman & Christina Segerholm 27. Pursuing the Wrong Indicators? The Development and Impact of Test-based Accountability - Harry Torrance 28. Evaluation and educational policy making - Ulf P. Lundgren 29. Technology and Educational Evaluation - Michael Scriven 30. Servingthe Public Interest through Educational Evaluation: Salvaging Democracy by Rejecting Neo-Liberalism - Sandra Mathison 31. Dilemmas for Educational Evaluation in a Globalized Society - J. Bradley Cousins & Katherine Ryan.

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-4068-9
• Editorial: Sage
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 587
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés