The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

J Bradley Cousins author Katherine E Ryan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:1st Oct '09

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Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluationaddressesmethods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches.

Key Features

  • Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation;
  • Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches;
  • Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres;
  • Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization;
  • Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization.

Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.

ISBN: 9781412940689

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1240g

608 pages