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Sturges, Keith M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
Drawing on a qualitative study of an educational reform and its external evaluation, I describe how a well-intentioned but poorly conceptualized evaluation helped perpetuate asymmetries in the generation and use of evaluation findings. This article explores this project's failure to clarify evaluator roles, identify intended users and expected…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Stakeholders, Role, Evaluators
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Lau, Genevieve; LeMahieu, Paul – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1997
Evaluation of the Humanities Education, Research, and Language Development (HERALD) Project in the San Francisco Unified School District (California), which focused on teacher empowerment, shows the value of close collaboration between external evaluators and teachers as internal evaluators. Evaluator-teacher collaboration made evaluation more…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Stake, Bob – 1999
Both quality and representation are constructs that are central to evaluation as a form of human discourse. Quality is perhaps the most essential idea in evaluation, and once quality is discerned, it must be conveyed, or represented to others. These constructs are considered in the context of the Chicago, Illinois public schools, an urban system…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
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O'Sullivan, Rita G. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1995
The five articles of this theme issue focus on new developments in the evaluation of science education programs that have both substantive and theoretical implications for the field of evaluation. Past and current evaluation approaches are reviewed, and an overview is given of new assessments consistent with new curriculum developments. (SLD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education