Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring : A Systemic Approach

Scheerens, Jaap; Glas, Cees A. W.; Thomas, Sally M.

ISBN 10: 9026519591 / ISBN 13: 9789026519598

Published by Taylor & Francis, 2003

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Title: Educational Evaluation, Assessment and ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis:

This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts, restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness and school improvement are discussed as contributing to the overall conceptualization of school self-evaluation. A broad range of approaches is presented and methodological requirements are discussed. School self-evaluation contains controversial issues that reflect tension between the need for objectivity in a context that is permeated by values and potential conflicts of interests. Similar tensions may be seen to exist with respect to the static and "reductionist" aspects of available data collection procedures in a complex and dynamic situation and the appeal for external accountability on the one hand and improvement oriented self-refection on the other. The mission of the book is to clarify these tensions and offer ways to deal with them in practical applications. The school effectiveness knowledge base is offered as a substantive educational frame of references that serves an important function in selecting relevant factors for data collection and the use of the evaluation results.

Synopsis:

"Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring" presents methodological development in educational measurement, monitoring on the basis of indicator systems, and review-type approaches such as inspection and school self-evaluation. The lucid presentation of these topics is combined with substantive knowledge of educational effectiveness. In this way the book is not just a guide on how to assess, monitor and evaluate in education, but also on what to measure, describe and assess. The systemic approach situates these evaluative processes "in context". The core processes that are the subject matter of this book are embedded in processes of governance and management and in structural configurations at various levels of the education system. This "contextualization" is used to indicate how "educational monitoring and evaluation" should be fitted to various contexts, and how to deal with limiting political, institutional and organizational constraints. The book is aimed at graduate students, practising evaluators, educational research and development personnel, school managers, school inspectors, education consultants and education planning officers at various administrative levels.