Beschreibung:
Sandra Mathison is a Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has been conducting evaluations, primarily in educational settings, for more than 25 years. She began her career as an internal evaluator at a Canadian community college and has subsequently conducted dozens of external evaluations and served as the Director of Evaluation for the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project for three years. Over these many years and through these many opportunities to do and study evaluation, she has developed an interest in and contributed to evaluation through her emphasis on democratic principles and possibilities. A deep concern for the limitations and limiting nature of evaluation in schools runs throughout her work. Now more than ever, the nature of evaluation within schools constrains what it means to adequately determine what is good and bad in schools, and thus limits the possibilities for improvement. Her current research focuses on these limits of evaluation in schools. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she is conducting research on the effects of high stakes testing on teaching and learning in elementary and middle schools. Mathison has written extensively about this topic in an effort to encourage a more informed public discourse about the value of schools and schooling. She chaired the American Evaluation Association task force that created a policy statement on high stakes testing in K-12 schooling. She is coeditor (with E. Wayne Ross) of Defending Public Schools: The Nature and Limits of Standards Based Reform and Assessment.
All humans are nascent evaluators. Evaluation has been with us throughout history, and in its modern form has moved from the margins to the centres of organizations, agencies, educational institutions and corporate boardrooms. No longer a specialized, part-time activity, evaluation has become institutionalized, a common practice, and indeed an important commodity in political and social life.
The Encyclopedia of Evaluation is an authoritative, first-of-its-kind who, what, where, why, and how of the field of evaluation. Covering professional practice as well as academia, this volume chronicles the development of the field - its history, key figures, theories, approaches and goals. From the leading publisher in the field of evaluation, this work is a must-have for all social science libraries, departments that offer courses in evaluation, and students and professional evaluators around the world.
Topics covered include:
- Concepts, Evaluation
- Concepts, Methodological
- Concepts, Philosophical
- Concepts, Social Science
- Ethics and Standards
- Evaluation Approaches and Models
- Evaluation around the World, Stories
- Evaluation Planning
- Evaluation Theory
- Laws and Legislation
- Organizations
- People
- Publications
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Representation, Reporting, Communicating
- Systems
- Technology
- Utilization
The Encyclopedia of Evaluation is an essential reference work for all academic libraries.
All humans are nascent evaluators. Evaluation has been with us throughout history, and in its modern form has moved from the margins to the centers of organizations, agencies, educational institutions, and corporate boardrooms. No longer a specialized, part-time activity, evaluation has become institutionalized, a common practice, and indeed an important commodity in political and social life.
The Encyclopedia of Evaluation is an authoritative, first-of-its-kind who, what, where, why, and how of the field of evaluation. Covering professional practice as well as academia, this volume chronicles the development of the field-its history, key figures, theories, approaches, and goals. From the leading publisher in the field of evaluation, this work is a must-have for all social science libraries, departments that offer courses in evaluation and professional evaluators around the world.
Topics Covered
- Concepts, Evaluation
- Concepts, Methodological
- Concepts, Philosophical
- Concepts, Social Science
- Ethics and Standards
- Evaluation Approaches and Models
- Evaluation around the World, Stories
- Evaluation Planning
- Evaluation Theory
- Laws and Legislation
- Organizations
- People
- Publications
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Representation, Reporting, Communicating
- Systems
- Technology
- Utilization
List of Entries
Reader's Guide
List of Contributors
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Preface
Entries A-W
Author Index
Subject Index
