Educational Evaluation, Assessment, and Monitoring

Scheerens J Thomas Sally M. Scheerens Jaap Cees Glas

ISBN 10: 9026519591 / ISBN 13: 9789026519598

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2003

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pp. xv + 438. Seller Inventory # 18355348

Bibliographic Details

Title: Educational Evaluation, Assessment, and ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts, restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness and school improvement are discussed as contributing to the overall conceptualization of school self-evaluation. A broad range of approaches is presented and methodological requirements are discussed. School self-evaluation contains controversial issues that reflect tension between the need for objectivity in a context that is permeated by values and potential conflicts of interests. Similar tensions may be seen to exist with respect to the static and "reductionist" aspects of available data collection procedures in a complex and dynamic situation and the appeal for external accountability on the one hand and improvement oriented self-refection on the other. The mission of the book is to clarify these tensions and offer ways to deal with them in practical applications. The school effectiveness knowledge base is offered as a substantive educational frame of references that serves an important function in selecting relevant factors for data collection and the use of the evaluation results.

About the Author:

Linda Strutz is an Associate Professor of History at Beloit College in Wisconsin.