Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Evaluating Educational Reforms
Download Evaluating Educational Reforms full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Evaluating Educational Reforms ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Evaluating Educational Reforms by : Peder Haug
Download or read book Evaluating Educational Reforms written by Peder Haug and published by IAP. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Assessment Reform in Education by : Rita Berry
Download or read book Assessment Reform in Education written by Rita Berry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education. A new perspective of assessment sees assessment as a means to enhance learning. This book examines the tensions, challenges and outcomes (intended and unintended) of assessment reform arising at the interface of policy and implementation, and implementation and student learning. The book reviews the experiences insights gained from research, and identifies the facilitators and hindrances to effective change. It reflects current thinking of assessment and provides the readers with ample background information of assessment development in many countries including USA, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Book Synopsis An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia by : National Research Council
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia is a comprehensive five-year summative evaluation report for Phase Two of an initiative to evaluate the District of Columbia's public schools. Consistent with the recommendations in the 2011 report A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia's Public Schools, this new report describes changes in the public schools during the period from 2009 to 2013. An Evaluation of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia examines business practices, human resources operations and human capital strategies, academic plans, and student achievement. This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention.
Book Synopsis Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation by : Alyson L. Lavigne
Download or read book Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation written by Alyson L. Lavigne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation examines the complex role that recent educational reforms have played in the teaching profession. The failure of programs like Race to the Top to benefit teaching and learning outcomes has yielded many questions about what went wrong and how a research-based plan for true systemic progress could actually work. Covering inaccurate narratives about schools and student achievement, evidence for teacher effectiveness, and the history and repercussions of Race to the Top, this book culminates with a proposal for future research and policy initiatives that more accurately and more equitably prioritize the measurement and improvement of teaching and learning. Five concise yet comprehensive chapters invite teacher and principal educators, teachers and school leaders in training, district administrators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to better understand the implications of and possible paths beyond misguided reform efforts. An overview of the recent past and an inspiration for the immediate future, this definitive analysis offers insights into how more reasonable, empirically derived strategies will ultimately foster more successful schools.
Book Synopsis Evaluating and Reforming Education Systems by : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Download or read book Evaluating and Reforming Education Systems written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD. This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everyone at the Table by : Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt
Download or read book Everyone at the Table written by Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven method for working with teachers to design better evaluations There is no magic formula for successfully designing a teacher evaluation system. However there is abundant evidence that suggests involving teachers in the process will reduce the likelihood of opposition, gridlock, and reform failure. Everyone at the Table provides materials to genuinely engage teachers in the evaluation process. The book is a research-based and field-tested practical guide for school leaders. With this resource, educators will have the tools they need to develop meaningful teacher evaluations. Offers a collaborative approach to designing teacher evaluations Includes a companion web-based resource, with video This research-based program outlines a solid plan for improving teacher effectiveness through evaluation reform.
Book Synopsis The Market Comes to Education in Sweden by : Anders Bjorklund
Download or read book The Market Comes to Education in Sweden written by Anders Bjorklund and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large central government providing numerous public services has long been a hallmark of Swedish society, which is also well-known for its pursuit of equality. Yet in the 1990s, Sweden moved away from this tradition in education, introducing market-oriented reforms that decentralized authority over public schools and encouraged competition between private and public schools. Many wondered if this approach would improve educational quality, or if it might expand inequality that Sweden has fought so hard to hold down. In The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, economists Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger measure the impact of Sweden's bold experiment in governing and help answer the questions that societies across the globe have been debating as they try to improve their children's education. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden injects some much-needed objectivity into the heavily politicized debate about the effectiveness of educational reform. While advocates for reform herald the effectiveness of competition in improving outcomes, others suggest that the reforms will grossly increase educational inequality for young people. The authors find that increased competition did help improve students' math and language skills, but only slightly, and with no effect on the performance of foreign-born students and those with low-educated parents. They also find some signs of increasing school segregation and wider inequality in student performance, but nothing near the doomsday scenarios many feared. In fact, the authors note that the relationship between family background and school performance has hardly budged since before the reforms were enacted. The authors conclude by providing valuable recommendations for school reform, such as strengthening school evaluation criteria, which are essential for parents, students, and governments to make competent decisions regarding education. Whether or not the market-oriented reforms to Sweden's educational system succeed will have far reaching implications for other countries considering the same course of action. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden offers firm empirical answers to the questions raised by school reform and brings crucial facts to the debate over the future of schooling in countries across the world.
Book Synopsis Education Reforms Without Evaluation Designs by : Peter James Kpolovie
Download or read book Education Reforms Without Evaluation Designs written by Peter James Kpolovie and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inventing Better Schools by : Phillip C. Schlechty
Download or read book Inventing Better Schools written by Phillip C. Schlechty and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schlechty shows both educators and parents how to envision reform and design quality educational systems. He explains how the visioning process must be rooted in real shared beliefs, how mission statements must unpack visions into concrete goals that are connected to action, and how the results of reform can be usefully assessed. Drawing on the author's vast experience in the day-to-day work of implementing school reform, Inventing Better Schools offers new approaches for setting standards and ensuring accountability--and includes samples of actual mission statements and strategic plans of successful school districts.
Book Synopsis Misguided Education Reform by : Nancy E. Bailey
Download or read book Misguided Education Reform written by Nancy E. Bailey and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction. This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.
Book Synopsis A Nation at Risk by : United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education
Download or read book A Nation at Risk written by United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms by : Julie H. Carter
Download or read book Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms written by Julie H. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher performance exams has raised concerns about the influence of corporate interests in teacher education, the objectivity of nationalized teaching standards, and ultimately the overarching political and economic interests shaping the process, format, and nature of assessment itself. Through an arc of scholarship from various perspectives, this book explores a range of questions about the goals and interests at work in the roll out of the edTPA assessment and gives voice to those most affected by these policy changes, teacher educators, and teacher education students.
Book Synopsis Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching by : Derek Gottlieb
Download or read book Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching written by Derek Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top. These initiatives introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching, both from an administrative standpoint and the perspective of teacher training programs. This volume offers a direct critique of this approach, concluding that it does not respond adequately to the issues of education reform but rather raises new problems and actively stymies progress. The author argues that at the heart of the confusion lies a misguided and rationalistic view of teaching and learning. He draws on the philosophical strategies of Ludwig Wittgenstein to break down the guiding assumptions of Race to the Top, allowing both the positive and the negative aspects of the policies to be heard. The author then proposes a different view of teaching and learning which considers how to effectively address the problems Race to the Top seeks to confront.
Book Synopsis A Nation at Risk by : Kenneth K. Wong
Download or read book A Nation at Risk written by Kenneth K. Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue examines the underlying assumptions of the "A Nation At Risk" report, the context within which the Commission's work was situated, and the effects of the report in improving teaching and learning, as well as the performance of the public educational system. The purpose is to address three broad questions: Was America's education system really putting the nation at risk in the early 1980s? What is the legacy of "A Nation At Risk"? Given our current knowledge on education and human development, the report's overall concern is restated: What risks and opportunities lay before the nation today, and how will they affect the notion of a "learning society" and our public education system? Taken as a whole, the seven articles address the three broad issues identified regarding the past, current, and future of educational reform in the United States.
Book Synopsis Evaluating State Education Reforms by : Michael W. Kirst
Download or read book Evaluating State Education Reforms written by Michael W. Kirst and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evaluating State Educational Reforms by : James W. Guthrie
Download or read book Evaluating State Educational Reforms written by James W. Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Establishing a Framework for Evaluation and Teacher Incentives Considerations for Mexico by : OECD
Download or read book Establishing a Framework for Evaluation and Teacher Incentives Considerations for Mexico written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the main findings and policy recommendations developed by the OECD Steering Group on Evaluation and Teacher Incentive Policies, consisting of international experts.
