School-Based Evaluation (Advances in Program Evaluation)

✍ Scribed by David Nevo

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Divided into two parts, this volume first discusses the concept of school-based evaluation, followed by a presentation of case studies of school evaluation from across the world. In part one, school-based evaluation is examined from three perspectives: school-based evaluation as a dialogue between internal and external evaluation; school evaluation from a perspective of institutional self-evaluation in a democracy and issues of definition, methods and implementation. The second part of the book presents case studies from Norway, England, The Netherlands, Austria, Spain, United States, Canada, Israel, Scotland and Germany. All of the case studies are based on actual experience with school-based evaluation in various educational and social contexts. Authors recognise the wide range of local constraints and reflect upon multiple evaluation perspectives, describing their educational context, evaluation perspective and specific school-based experience. They highlight difficulties encountered in their work, discuss the implications and make recommendations for further development of the concept of school-based evaluation and its practice. "School-Based Evaluation: An International Perspective" does not suggest internal/self school evaluation as an alternative to external "objective" evaluation. However, an attempt is made to advocate the combination of both for the benefit of school accountability and school improvement.

✦ Table of Contents

SCHOOL-BASED
EVALUATION:
AN INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
DIALOGUE EVALUATION:
COMBINING INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL EVALUATION......Page 10
SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION
IN A DEMOCRACY......Page 24
SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION:
ORIGINS, DEFINITION, APPROACHES,
METHODS AND IMPLEMENTATION......Page 42
SCHOOL-BASED EVALUATION
IN NORWAY:
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT
TO CONVINCE TEACHERS OF
ITS USEFULNESS?......Page 77
EVALUATION AS SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENT: A DEVELOPMENTAL
PERSPECTIVE FROM ENGLAND......Page 93
SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION
IN THE NETHERLANDS......Page 117
SELF EVALUATION AS ENDEAVOUR
TO UNDERSTAND QUALITY:
EXPERIENCES IN AUSTRIAN
SCHOOL-BASED EVALUATION......Page 148
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
SCHOOL EVALUATION IN THE
SPANISH EDUCATIONAL REFORM......Page 170
EVALUATING ACCELERATED
SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 189
SCHOOL-BASED EVALUATION
AND THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDA
IN CANADA......Page 202
ISRAEL: INTERNAL
SELF-EVALUATION AS A
MEANS FOR GENERATING
CHANGE......Page 220
SCOTLAND: SCHOOLS SPEAKING
FOR THEMSELVES......Page 244
SCHOOL EVALUATION IN
GERMANY: A MEANS TO
IMPROVE SCHOOL QUALITY......Page 261