1st Edition

Reevaluating Evaluation A Special Issue of peabody Journal of Education

Edited By Laura M. Desimone Copyright 2002
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

In the context of the evolution of education program evaluation and the current emphasis on scientific precision, this special issue presents several of the challenges to program evaluation that scholars are facing today. In addition, it shares recent insights and experiences that will contribute to continued improvement of program evaluation and responds to the call for more exactness without... Read more
Volume 77, Number 4, 2003
Contents: L.M. Desimone, Editor's Introduction. G. Borman, Experiements for Educational Evaluation and Improvement. M. Berends, M. Garet, In (Re)Search of Evidence-Based School Practices: Possibilities for Integrating Natinally Representative Surveys and Randomized Field Trials to Inform Educational Policy. B. Birman, A. Porter, Evaluation Education Funding Streams. R. Blank, Using Surveys of Enacted Curriculum to Advance Evaluation of Instruction in Relation to Standard. S.N. Kirby, D.F. McCaffrey, J.R. Lockwood, J.S. McCombs, S. Naftel, H. Barney, Using State School Accountability Data to Evaluation Federal Programs: A Long Uphill Road. B.C. Gamse, M.A. Millsap, B.D. Goodson, When Implementation Threatens Impacts: Challenging Lessons From Evaluating Educational Programs. A. Datnow, S. Sutherland, The Politics of Researching Comprehensive School Reform Efforts. D. Kaplan, Methodological Advances in the Analysis of Individual Growth With Relevance to Education.

Biography

Laura M. Desimone