Evaluating Educational Reforms: Scandinavian Perspectives (Hc) (Evaluation and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931576912 ISBN 13: 9781931576918

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

A Scandinavian perspective on evaluating educational reforms. The essays include: The Research Council of Norway Evaluating Reform 97; Models of Evaluation; and What's Being Done in the Name of Evaluation? Experiences Drawn from the Recent Evaluation of Schooling Reforms in Switzerland.

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About the Author:

"Thomas A. Schwandt" is Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also holds appointments in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership. He has been a faculty member and a Fellow of the Poynter Center for Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University, Bloomington and member of the faculty in medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His papers on qualitative methodology, issues in the philosophy of interpretive social science, and evaluation theory have appeared in a variety journals and edited books. He is the author of "Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for Practice" (Stanford University Press, 2015), "Evaluation" "Practice Reconsidered" (Peter Lang, 2002), and "Evaluating Holistic Rehabilitation Praxis" (Kommuneforlaget, Oslo, 2004); and co-author (with Kenneth Prewitt and Miron Straf) of "Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy" (National Academies Press, 2012) and (with Edward Halpern) of "Linking Auditing and Meta-evaluation "(Sage, 1988); co-editor (with Katherine Ryan) of "Exploring Evaluator Role and Identity" (Information Age Press, 2002), (with Peder Haug) of "Evaluating Educational Reforms: Scandinavian Perspectives" (Information Age Press, 2003), and (with Bridget Somekh) "Knowledge Production: The Work of Educational Research in Interesting Times "(Routldege, 2007). He was the editor of the "American Journal of Evaluation" from 2010-2014.In 2002, he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the American Evaluation Association for his contributions to evaluation theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1931576912
• ISBN 13: 9781931576918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: Haug Peder, Schwandt Thomas A