Evaluation category: 669 books
Evaluation in Distance Education and E-Learning
The Unfolding Model
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
With the rapid proliferation of distance education and e-learning courses, the need is growing for a comprehensive, professional approach to evaluating their effectiveness. This indispensable book offers a road map to guide evaluation practice in these innovative learning environments. Providing practical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
With the demand to maintain a competitive advantage, the assessment and evaluation of education is vital in measuring the knowledge and skills of the students, community, and educational system as a whole by providing educators with the facts needed to enhance and improve the learning process. Cases...
Purposeful Program Theory
Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory—not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance....
The Evaluators’ Eye
Impact Assessment and Academic Peer Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact. The UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) for the first time included an “Impact” criterion that considered how research had influenced society,...
The Design of Instruction and Evaluation
Affordances of Using Media and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This book is about empirically tested knowledge and principles that inform the design of instructional and evaluation systems, and the use and promise of media and technology within such systems.
Historically, psychology has informed the design of instructional and evaluation systems in different...
Evaluating Literacy Instruction
Principles and Promising Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This must-read book for all literacy educators illuminates the intersection of research on literacy instruction and teacher evaluation. Since 2009, 46 states have changed or revised policies related to evaluating teachers and school leaders. In order for these new policies to be used to support and...
by Michael DiPaola, Wayne K. Hoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This new book recognizes the reality that all principals are responsible for supervision, evaluation, and professional development of their teachers—tasks that are neither simple nor without conflict. The primary audience of this text is aspiring and practicing principals. We hope to help them understand...
Defensible Teacher Evaluation
Student Growth Through Classroom Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Meaningful teacher evaluation starts with visible student growth
Annual standardized test scores cannot provide evidence of student growth needed to evaluate teacher performance. But consider student growth in the form of evidence derived from classroom assessment and you’re on to something....
Evaluating America’s Teachers
Mission Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
When teacher evaluations are fair, everyone wins.
Poor evaluation systems don’t just hurt teachers—they hurt students, too. That’s why America can’t afford to wait for the teacher-evaluation problem to be solved. To provide balanced, accurate, and rigorous evaluations that take into...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Self-evaluation is going global. This book describes what happened when teams of school students from across the world embarked on the trip of a lifetime to explore the school lives of their international contemporaries.
The students involved in The Learning School project used a variety of tools...
by Ernest R. House
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field. The book developed a new, expanded conception of the validity of evaluation studies, based on broad criteria of truth, beauty, and justice. It also presented a widelyused typology of evaluation...
10 Models of Teacher Evaluation
The Policies, The People, The Potential
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
For the first time, school districts around the country are being required to adopt formal accountability measures to assess teacher effectiveness. In a radical shift, teacher quality will be based on outputs (student achievement; teacher observations) rather than inputs (years of service; degrees...
by Kristen Stephens, Ph.D., Frances Karnes
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
From animations to Web quests, this new volume of The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development & Evaluation features all new products that promote the development of 21st century skills in students. This new edition discusses how the skills and content gained from the development of products...
Score to Soar
Moving Teachers From Evaluation to Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data...