Bringing together the expertise of top evaluation leaders from around the world, The SAGE International Handbook of Educational Evaluation addresses methods and applications in the field, particularly as they relate to policy- and decision-making in an era of globalization. The comprehensive collection of articles in the Handbook compels readers to consider globalization influences on educational evaluation within distinct genres or families of evaluation approaches. Key Features Discusses substantive issues surrounding globalization, and its implication for educational policy and practice and ultimately evaluation; Includes state-of-the-art theory chapters and method chapters within scientific, accountability-oriented, learning-oriented, and political genres of evaluation approaches; Provides real-world case exemplar chapters to illustrate core concepts within genres; Extends dialogue on controversial topics and contemporary educational evaluation tensions in the context of globalization; Summarizes, by means of an integration chapter, the issues, tensions and dilemmas confronting educational evaluators in an era of globalization. Serving as a state-of-the-art resource on educational evaluation, this volume is designed for graduate students, evaluation scholars and researchers and professional evaluation practitioners with an interest in educational program and policy evaluation.
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Includes various variants, from the collection's in 1855 through the posthumous Old Age Echoes annex printed in 1897. This volume contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of various editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. It includes the poems from 1860 through 1867.
Includes various variants, from the collection's in 1855 through the posthumous Old Age Echoes annex printed in 1897. This volume contains introductory material, including a chronology of the poems and a summary of various editions and annexes, along with the poems from 1855 and 1856. It includes the poems from 1860 through 1867.
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Author Dennis Organ pioneered theories regarding the character and causes of the spontaneous, largely discretionary, often mundane contributions that participants make to organizational effectiveness. He wrote in journal articles and his 1988 text, which built on earlier work by Chester Barnard, Daniel Katz, and Robert Kahn. By the early 1990s, it ......
