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The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

Katherine Ryan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
J. Bradley Cousins University of Ottawa
© 2009   608 pages   SAGE Publications, Inc   
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Hardcover ISBN: 9781412940689 £94.00
Introduction
Acknowledgments
PART I. THE EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION CONTEXT
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
PART II. THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
4. Evaluation, Method Choices, and Pathways to Consequences: Trying to Making Sense of How Evaluation Can Contribute to Sensemaking
5. Randomized Experiments 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 Multiphase, Mi
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
PART III. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION, CAPACITY BUILDING, AND MONITORING
10. Evaluation, Accountability and Performance Measurement in National Education Systems: Trends, Methods, and Issues Katherine E. Ryan
11. A Precarious Balance: Educational Evaluation Capacity Building in a Globalized Society
12. International Assessments and Indicators: How Will Assessments and Performance Indicators Improve Educational Policies and Practices in a Globaliz
13. Exemplary Case: Implementing Large-Scale Assessment of Education in Mexico
14. Inquiry-Minded District Leaders: Evaluation as Inquiry, Inquiry as Practice
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?
PART IV. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AS LEARNING AND DISCOVERY
17. Learning-Oriented Educational Evaluation in Contemporary Society
18. Meaningfully Engaging With Difference Through Mixed Methods Educational Evaluation
19. Case Study Methods in Educational Evaluation Linda Mabry
20. Developing a Community of Practice: Learning and Transformation Through Evaluation
21. Learning-in-(Inter)action: A Dialogical Turn to Evaluation and Learning
22. Educational Evaluation as Mediated Mutual Learning John Elliott
PART V. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION IN A POLITICAL WORLD
23. Own Goals: Democracy, Evaluation, and Rights in Millenium Projects
24. Reclaiming Knowledge at the Margins: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in the Current Evaluation Moment
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
27. Pursuing the Wrong Indicators? The Development and Impact of Test-Based Accountability
PART VI. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DILEMMAS
28. Evaluation and Educational Policymaking
29. Technology and Educational Evaluation Michael Scriven
30. Serving the Public Interest Through Educational Evaluation: Salvaging Democracy by Rejecting Neoliberalism
31. Dilemmas for Educational Evaluation in a Globalized Society J. Bradley Cousins & Katherine Ryan
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
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