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Evaluation of Large-Scale Public-Sector Reforms: A Comparative Analysis
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Breidahl, Karen N.; Gjelstrup, Gunnar; Hansen, Hanne Foss; Hansen, Morten Balle – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Research on the evaluation of large-scale public-sector reforms is rare. This article sets out to fill that gap in the evaluation literature and argues that it is of vital importance since the impact of such reforms is considerable and they change the context in which evaluations of other and more delimited policy areas take place. In our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Social Action, Evaluation
Roles of Assessment in Secondary Education: Participant Perspectives
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Rasmussen, Annette; Friche, Nanna – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2011
Performance pressure at both the institutional and individual level of secondary education has been identified as a pressure that is acknowledged all over Europe and raises questions about the extent to which agents in lower and upper secondary education interpret assessment in terms of either control or learning, or perhaps both. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Social Structure
Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress. Volume 9, Number 17
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Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "The High Cost of High School Dropouts": New Alliance Brief Says Dropouts from the Class of 2009 Represent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Education Work Relationship, Dropouts
Why All This Evaluation? Theoretical Notes and Empirical Observations on the Functions and Growth of Evaluation, with Denmark as an Illustrative Case.
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Albaek, Erik – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
That theoretical debates and developments in organizational analysis can be a source of inspiration for evaluation utilization research is explored through consideration of the societal function of evaluation and its historical development. A discussion of policy evaluation in Danish political administration illustrates evaluation theory and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluation Utilization
Evaluation in In-Service Education of Teachers: A Collection of Case-Studies from 6 European Countries.
Nentwig, Peter, Ed. – 1989
Easily accessible publications which report procedures and results of real evaluation studies of inservice teacher education are lacking. Therefore, this collection of case studies was initiated by the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) to provide some practical help for practitioners. The first section of the volume is a general…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Utility of Scales Derived from Teacher Judgements of Adolescent Academic Performance and Psychosocial Behavior.
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Baker, Robert L.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
The utility of teacher ratings of student academic performance and psychosocial behaviors as technically sound indirect measures of student outcomes was demonstrated in a long-term study of the effects of background variables on a cohort of Danish children (n=350). The Baker-Mednick Teacher Rating Form was developed for this purpose. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education