Participatory Evaluation In Education: Studies Of Evaluation Use And Organizatio

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This text examines "participatory evaluation" which involves teachers and educational administrators along with researchers in a range of education-based evaluation tasks with the aim of improving quality. Topics covered include variations in the approach, its viability and its likely impact.

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This text focuses on "participatory evaluation", an approach that involves teachers and educational administrators as partners with researchers in a broad range of school and school system-based evaluation tasks with the explicit goal of using such data to improve practice.; Participatory evaluation is a natural, suitable and effective approach to school improvement and educational change, and has been practiced by the editors and several colleagues for many years. Though participatory applied research strategies are growing in popularity, there is a paucity of documented empirical support for the approach. presenting a set of original empirical studies and a critical analysis of them this book will add to our knowledge about variations in the approach, conditions that support it, its viability within the culture of schools and school systems and its likely impact defined in terms of the use of research data and organisational learning.; The book will be useful for educational practitioners interested in critically evaluating the potential of participatory evaluation as an integral part of their own approach to educational reform. It will also clarify an agenda for research to further our understanding of the organisational benefits of this type of collaborative systematic enquiry.

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This text focuses on "participatory evaluation", an approach that involves teachers and educational administrators as partners with researchers in a broad range of school and school system-based evaluation tasks with the explicit goal of using such data to improve practice.; Participatory evaluation is a natural, suitable and effective approach to school improvement and educational change, and has been practiced by the editors and several colleagues for many years. Though participatory applied research strategies are growing in popularity, there is a paucity of documented empirical support for the approach. presenting a set of original empirical studies and a critical analysis of them this book will add to our knowledge about variations in the approach, conditions that support it, its viability within the culture of schools and school systems and its likely impact defined in terms of the use of research data and organisational learning.; The book will be useful for educational practitioners interested in critically evaluating the potential of participatory evaluation as an integral part of their own approach to educational reform. It will also clarify an agenda for research to further our understanding of the organisational benefits of this type of collaborative systematic enquiry.

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Lorna M. Earl, J. Bradley Cousins

Table of Contents

Part 1 Why Participatory Evaluation?: The Case for Participatory Evaluation: Theory, Research and Practice, J. Bradley Cousins and Lorna M. Earl. Part 2 Participatory Evaluation in Schools and School Systems: District- wide Evaluation of School Improvement: A System Partners Approach, Lorna M. Earl; A Participatory Approach to District-level Program Evaluation: The Dynamics of Internal Evaluation, Clay Lafleur; Assessing Program Needs Using Participatory Evaluation: A Comparison of High and Marginal Success Cases, J. Bradley Cousins; Participation in Evaluation of Funded School Improvements: Effects and Supporting Conditions, Linda E. Lee and J. Bradley Cousins; Involving Practitioners in Evaluation Studies: How Viable is Collaborative Evaluation in Schools?, Jean A. King; The Many Modes of Participatory Evaluation, Michael Huberman. Part 3 Educational Participatory Evaluation: Variations in Form: Inviting Collaboration: Insights into Researcher-School Community Partnerships, Lyn M. Shulha and Robert J. Wilson; Using Participatory Evaluation in an International Context, Donna M. Mertens, Terry R. Berkeley and Susan D. Lopez. Part 4 Themes and Conclusions: Participatory Evaluation in Education: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go?, J. Bradley Cousins and Lorna M. Earl.

Details ISBN0750704039 Short Title PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION IN ED Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 0750704039 ISBN-13 9780750704038 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 8 Year 1995 Imprint Routledge Falmer Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Edited by J. Bradley Cousins Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle Studies Of Evaluation Use And Organizational Learning DOI 10.1604/9780750704038 UK Release Date 1995-08-16 AU Release Date 1995-08-16 NZ Release Date 1995-08-16 Author J. Bradley Cousins Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Teachers' Library Publication Date 1995-08-16 Alternative 9780750704021 DEWEY 371.207 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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