The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation

Introduction Acknowledgments PART I. THE EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION CONTEXT 1. Globalization and Policy Research in Education - Fazal Rizvi 2. Globalizing Influences on the Western Evaluation Imaginary - Thomas A. Schwandt 3. Fundamental Evaluation Issues in a Global Society - Nick L. Smith PART II. THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION 4. Evaluation, Method Choices, and Pathways to Consequences: Trying to Making Sense of How Evaluation Can Contribute to Sensemaking 5. Randomized Experiments and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Educational Research - Peter M. Steiner, Angela Wroblewski & Thomas D. Cook 6. Enhancing Impact Evidence on How Global Education Initiatives Work: Theory, Epistemological Foundations, and Principles for Applying Multiphase, Mixed Method Designs 7. The Evaluation of the Georgia Pre-K Program: An Example of a Scientific Evaluation of an Early Education Program - Gary T. Henry & Dana K. Rickman 8. Globalization-Blessing and Bane in Empirical Evaluation: Lessons in Three Acts - Jacob Marszalek & Debra D. Bragg 9. Science-Based Educational Evaluation and Student Learning in a Global Society: A Critical Appraisal - Lois-ellin Datta PART III. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION, CAPACITY BUILDING, AND MONITORING 10. Evaluation, Accountability and Performance Measurement in National Education Systems: Trends, Methods, and Issues - Katherine E. Ryan 11. A Precarious Balance: Educational Evaluation Capacity Building in a Globalized Society 12. International Assessments and Indicators: How Will Assessments and Performance Indicators Improve Educational Policies and Practices in a Globalized Society? 13. Exemplary Case: Implementing Large-Scale Assessment of Education in Mexico 14. Inquiry-Minded District Leaders: Evaluation as Inquiry, Inquiry as Practice 15. Where Global Meets Local: Contexts, Constraints, and Consensus in School Evaluation in Ireland - Gerry McNamara & Joe O?Hara 16. Accountability and Capacity Building: Can They Live Together? PART IV. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AS LEARNING AND DISCOVERY 17. Learning-Oriented Educational Evaluation in Contemporary Society 18. Meaningfully Engaging With Difference Through Mixed Methods Educational Evaluation 19. Case Study Methods in Educational Evaluation - Linda Mabry 20. Developing a Community of Practice: Learning and Transformation Through Evaluation 21. Learning-in-(Inter)action: A Dialogical Turn to Evaluation and Learning 22. Educational Evaluation as Mediated Mutual Learning - John Elliott PART V. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION IN A POLITICAL WORLD 23. Own Goals: Democracy, Evaluation, and Rights in Millennium Projects 24. Reclaiming Knowledge at the Margins: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in the Current Evaluation Moment 25. Evaluation for and by Navajos: A Narrative Case of the Irrelevance of Globalization - Stafford Hood 26. Dialogue, Deliberation and Democracy in Educational Evaluation: Theoretical Arguments and a Case Narrative 27. Pursuing the Wrong Indicators? The Development and Impact of Test-Based Accountability PART VI. EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW DILEMMAS 28. Evaluation and Educational Policymaking 29. Technology and Educational Evaluation - Michael Scriven 30. Serving the Public Interest Through Educational Evaluation: Salvaging Democracy by Rejecting Neoliberalism 31. Dilemmas for Educational Evaluation in a Globalized Society - J. Bradley Cousins & Katherine Ryan Author Index Subject Index About the Editors About the Contributors