Quieting Reform
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Quieting Reform
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Author : Robert E. Stake
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1986
Quieting Reform written by Robert E. Stake and has been published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Education categories.
A Loud But Noisy Signal
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Author : Marius R. Busemeyer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-03
A Loud But Noisy Signal written by Marius R. Busemeyer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Education categories.
Explores how public opinion affects policy-making in education and the conditions that make party and interest groups politics matter more.
Evaluative Research Methods
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Author : Saville Kushner
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Evaluative Research Methods written by Saville Kushner and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Education categories.
How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of ‘fake news’, the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one of the few information spaces which are still free of politicisation and committed to validation. This book focuses on democracy in inquiry, and on the role of inquiry in a democracy – how research helps us to deliberate over what counts as of public value. It is a research methods book, but methods shaped by political and ethical purposes, and by the challenge of making judgements about what, in the public sphere, is worthy. We may be looking at a police training program, the siting of a clean energy project, a new school curriculum, maternal health program or an environmental adaptation project – in each case and in others like them we have to negotiate perspectives and claims, forge and justify a consensus, support competing stakeholders with the best information and analyses possible. And we have to make our work defensible – undeniable in the forum of public debate and exchange, examination and accountability. This book, full of examples from contemporary research projects, is designed to help navigate our way through the complexities of social research which focuses on judgements about public action. The book was written with research students and includes examples of their work. It recognises that supervisors often struggle as much as students in meeting the challenges of inquiry that involves some element of evaluative judgement – inquiry that potentially carries consequences. Where there are no quick-and-ready recipes, check-lists or theoretical frameworks – where we confront the particularities of the context in which the research takes place, we are all forced back onto good methodological thinking, and this is the pedagogical framing of the book.
Spinning Wheels
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Author : Frederick M. Hess
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Spinning Wheels written by Frederick M. Hess and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Education categories.
Almost everyone agrees that America's urban schools are a mess. But while this agreement has fostered widespread support for aggressive reform, Frederick Hess argues that much of what ails urban education is actually the result of continuous or fragmentary reform. Hess explains that political incentives drive school superintendents to promote reforms--to demonstrate that they are "making a difference." Superintendents have to do this quickly, both because their tenure is usually three years or less and because urban communities are anxious to see educational improvement. However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short-term improvement. The result is what he terms "policy churn," which distracts teachers and principals from efforts to refine classroom teaching while seldom resulting in successful long-term changes. Hess argues that policymakers have misallocated resources by pursuing the "right" structure or the "best" pedagogy while paying insufficient attention to the more mundane--and more important--questions of how to implement, refine, and sustain a particular approach in their particular district. Hess explains that previous research on high-performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning. To help educators and policymakers adopt and nurture a focused agenda, he recommends institutional changes that increase the effectiveness of performance outcomes and reduce the incentives to emphasize symbolic reform.
Foundations Of Program Evaluation
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Author : William R. Shadish
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1991
Foundations Of Program Evaluation written by William R. Shadish and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
Foundations of Program Evaluationheralds a thorough exploration of the field of program evaluation--looking back on its origins. By summarizing, comparing, and contrasting the work of seven major theorists of program evaluation, this book provides an important perspective on the current state of evaluation theory and provides suggestions for ways of improving its practice. Beginning in Chapter Two, the authors develop a conceptual framework to analyze how successfully each theory meets the specific criteria of its framework. Each subsequent chapter is devoted to the presentation of the theoretical and practical advice of a significant theorist--Michael Scriven, Donald Campbell, Carol Weiss, Joseph Wholey, Robert Stake, Lee Cronbach, and Peter Rossi.
Bold Ventures
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Author : S. Raizen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Bold Ventures written by S. Raizen and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Education categories.
This book presents comprehensive results from case studies of three innovations in mathematics education that have much to offer toward understanding current reforms in this field. Each chapter tells the story of a case in rich detail, with extensi ve documentation, and in the voices of many of the participants-the innovators, the teachers, the students. Similarly, Volume 2 of Bold Ventures pre sents the results from case studies of five innovations in science education. Volume 1 provides a cross-case analysis of all eight innovations. Many U.S. readers certainly will be very familiar with the name of at least if not all of the mathematics innovations discussed in this volume-for one example, the NCTM Standards-and probably with their general substance. Much of the education community's familiarity with these" arises from the pro jects' own dissemination efforts. The research reported in this volume, however, is one of the few detailed studies of these innovations undertaken by researchers outside the projects themselves.
Introducing The World Of Education A Case Study Reader
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Author : Robert K. Yin
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2005-03-30
Introducing The World Of Education A Case Study Reader written by Robert K. Yin and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-30 with Education categories.
The third of the series, Jane Hetherington's Adventures in Detection. Need to catch a conman real quick? Discover why a sister's become a stranger? Pick up a trail long gone cold? Catch an artful dodger red-handed? Make amends? Contact: [email protected] Contains: Magic, slapstick, the organic, a kleptomaniac, a cat and more than one mouse Doesn't contain any Grouse
Avenues Of Faith
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Author : Samuel Claude Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2001-05-15
Avenues Of Faith written by Samuel Claude Shepherd and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-15 with History categories.
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
The Search For Order 1877 1920
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Author : Robert H. Wiebe
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2022-12-06
The Search For Order 1877 1920 written by Robert H. Wiebe and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with History categories.
At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, 1877-1920, Robert H. Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Americans sought the organizing principles around which a new viable social order could be constructed in the modern world. This subtle and sophisticated study combines the virtues of historical narrative, sociological analysis, and social criticism.
Personalizing Evaluation
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Author : Saville Kushner
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-05-02
Personalizing Evaluation written by Saville Kushner and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-02 with Social Science categories.
`A brilliant piece of work, adroitly fitted to the present state of affairs in program evaluation, devoted to a defensible and under-attended proposition - that we should understand programs through their recipients' - Robert Stake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign `This book makes an important and unique contribution to evaluation' - Michael Quinn Patton, The Union Institute, Minneapolis Personalizing Evaluation challenges the mainstream approach to program evaluation by inverting the traditional relationship between program and person. Saville Kushner shows how evaluation should document individual and group experience and use this as a lens through which to read social