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American Evaluation Association Summer Evaluation Institute, June 2 – 5, 2013
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Third International Conference on Critical Education
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Reflections of a Journal Editor
When my term as Editor-in-Chief of New Directions for Evaluation ended I was asked to write a short piece for the AEA newsletter, as I did each year whilst I was EIC. I submitted a short reflection on...
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“outcome harvesting”… forensics-informed evaluation approach
Outcome Harvesting is an evaluation approach developed by Ricardo Wilson-Grau. Using a forensics approach, outcome harvesting has the evaluator or ‘harvester’ retrospectively gleans information from...
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Barry MacDonald ~ in memoriam
The evaluation community has lost a giant in the field. Professor Emeritus Barry MacDonald (Centre for Applied Research in Education,University of East Anglia) died on Monday 15th April. He is known...
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Should we give grades in school?
A few school districts in western Canada have moved away from percentage grades to categorical grades and involving students and parents genuinely in conferences about learning. In BC, Maple Ridge and...
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The new symbolic evaluation
Recently I bought two new cars, and have been on a vacation where I stayed in numerous hotels, flew various airlines, and took a cruise. In almost every instance I was asked to do an evaluation of the...
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evaluation is everywhere
Just a quick example of the ubiquity of evaluation in our lives… from a fashion advice blog, the 5 criteria by which you can evaluate your sartorial splendor before stepping out into your day. An...
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curriculum evaluation ~ case examples
Be A Creator [politics of curriculum development and evaluation; context of evaluand] Sex Ed Curriculum Eval Tool [components of curriculum evaluation]
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Curriculum by K. Teitlebaum
Read this chapter on the history and definition of curriculum by Ken Teitlebaum. This chapter should be cited as Teitlebaum, K. (2008). Curriculum. In S. Mathison & E. W. Ross (eds.). Battleground...
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Elliot Eisner ~ in memoriam
Elliot Eisner brought the concepts of connoisseurship and criticism from the world of art to enable new ways of thinking about educational evaluation. He died at home on January 10, 2014 and the field...
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new book ~ Feminist Evaluation & Research: Theory & Practice
Available in April, a new edited book (Guilford Press) that explores the ‘whats,’ ‘whys,’ and ‘hows’ of integrating feminist theory and methods into applied research and evaluation practice. CONTENTS...
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some things never get old ~ resurrecting a piece on curriculum evaluation
Mathison, S. (1990). Reflections on evaluating innovative curriculum projects. In I. Wirszup & R. Streit (Eds.). Developments in school mathematics education around the world. Reston, VA: NCTM.
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a blog post about whether I should be blogging…
The International Studies Association (political science folks) is discussing a proposal to ban Association journal editors, editorial board members and anyone associated with its journals from...
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The “evaluate that” campaign
I am totally sympathetic with teachers’ reactions to the simplistic, pedestrian ways of evaluating the quality of their work, the quality of student work, and the quality of schools. That efforts are...
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an organic, evolving definition of evaluation
Perhaps a step closer to being a discipline, the American Evaluation Association project to define evaluation might signal that we are getting down to the fundamental ideas in our field. A committee...
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