Advances in Program Evaluation – serie
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11 produkter
Evaluating Art Education Programs in Community Centers
International Perspectives on Problems of Conception and Practice
Av Kristin G. Congdon, Doug Boughton
Inbunden, 1998
1778 kr
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This book is the first of its kind to address community arts and evaluation with an emphasis on the visual arts. This volume draws together a variety of international perspectives dealing with the common difficulty of conception related to both the mission of community centers and of the value of …
Telling Tales
On Evaluation and Narrative
Av Tineke A. Abma, Robert E. Stake
Inbunden, 2000
1778 kr
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One of the more interesting perspectives for evaluation is 'narrative'. Narratives are the common vehicles people use to understand and to communicate the value of their actions and social practices. Given the valuational and action-oriented character of narrative it seems strange that evaluators …
Visions of Quality
How Evaluators Define, Understand, and Represent Program Quality
Av D.M. Hinn, A. Benson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1939 kr
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The field of programme evaluation is shaped by an ever-increasing range of approaches each of which, to varying degrees, reflects evaluation's dual role as a theoretical endeavour and a form of socio-political inquiry. There is an array of approaches, each emphasizing different purposes and …
Assessing Teachers for Professional Certification
The First Decade of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Av Lawrence Ingvarson, John Hattie
Inbunden, 2008
2259 kr
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Nothing is as fundamental to the quality of a school system as the quality of its teachers. For this reason many countries are seeking policies that meet the challenge of promoting quality teaching. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in the USA is the most ambitious and …
Evaluating the Upgrading of Technical Courses at Two-Year Colleges
NSF's Advanced Technological Education Program
Av Arlen R. Gullickson, Frances Lawrenz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1738 kr
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The National Science Foundations (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program is a diverse and dynamic set of projects intent on improving the USA's technical workforce. This book uses the ATE work as a means to focus on key issues for federally funded projects and all community colleges …
Dilemmas of Engagement
Evaluation and the New Public Management
Av Saville Kushner, Nigel Norris
Inbunden, 2007
1611 kr
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In our reforming public institutions it sometimes feels as though the very ground of social and political contracts is shifting. The economic revolution embraced by neo-liberals and neo-conservatives is paralleled by a governance revolution in those same institutions which were designed to protect …
Evaluation and the Postmodern Dilemma
Av Linda Mabry
Inbunden, 1998
1740 kr
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This examination of advances in programme evaluation looks at issues such as deconstructing illuminative evaluation and new paradigm research; programme evaluation as a conceptual practice of power; and pragmatism and evaluative enquiry for organizational learning. It acknowledges the spread of …
Perspectives On Evaluating Criminal Justice and Corrections
Inbunden, 2012
1313 kr
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A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries. It begins by …
National Developmental and Negotiated Approach to School and Curriculum Evaluation
Av Mei Kuin Lai, Saville Kushner
Inbunden, 2013
1562 kr
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Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance. New Zealand offers a distinctive, systemic alternative to school self-evaluation, with developmental and negotiated approaches ingrained throughout the education system, from school inspection to major …
Case Study Evaluation
Past, Present and Future Challenges
Av Trish Greenhalgh, Jill Russell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1385 kr
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In today's world, with its preoccupation with impact assessments and results-based management, program evaluation is all too often framed as an affirmation of an official narrative rather than as a source of alternatives. The power of case study is its insistence on opening up rather than …
Access
A Zone of Comprehension and Intrusion
Inbunden, 2008
1172 kr
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This volume of "Advances for Program Evaluation" examines the nature and seriousness of fieldworkers' problems of failure to gain access, achieve comprehension, and avoid intrusion. To do all three, fieldworkers' need understanding and respect of the people from whom they seek data as well as be …
