1st Edition

Participatory Evaluation In Education Studies Of Evaluation Use And Organizational Learning

Edited By J. Bradley Cousins, Lorna M. Earl Copyright 1995
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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.

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Lorna M. Earl, J. Bradley Cousins