Can We Put Precision into Practice? Commentary and Thoughts Engendered by Abrami's “Improving Judgments About Teaching Effectiveness Using Teacher Rating Forms”

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 2001
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0579
• DOI: 10.1002/ir.5

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Evaluation researchers and practitioners agree that although measurement issues remain important to good evaluation practice, a greater area of concern is unreliable or invalid day‐to‐day practice. Can the precision of statistical techniques be brought to bear on this problem? This chapter reviews and summarizes responses to Abrami's proposal.