February 3, 2009
Logic Models ~ Evaluating long term policy initiative
Pathways to Early Childhood Education Logic Evaluation
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January 9, 2009
EPSE 591 Syllabus
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January 7, 2009
READINGS ~ EPSE 591 W2 2009
You will find links and downloads for all additional readings for the class here...
2/10
Christie & Azzam
Alkin & Christie
2/24
Greene
King
3/31
Davies & Dart, Most Significant Change
Coghlan, Preskill & Catsambas, Appreciative Inquiry
Brinkerhoff, Success Case Method
Cabrera, Systems Thinking
Barley & Jenness, Cluster Evaluation
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December 15, 2008
Paul Taylor, Normative Discourse
Chapter 1 The Process of Evaluation
Chapter 3 Justification of Value Judgements
Chapter 4 Value Systems and Points of View
Chapter 7 The Concept of Prescribing
Chapter 8 Prescribing and Evaluating
Chapter 10 Wittgenstein's conception of language
Chapter 11 The concept of a normative language
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September 10, 2008
Assessing What Kids Think About Themselves
There are a plethora of strategies for collecting data from children and youth that provide evidence for evaluation of services and programs. (See a previous post on my new book that focuses on data collection strategies that ensue from a perspective that sees youth as culturally embedded meaning-making social actors.) Often, the focus is psychological and individual--that is, focusing on psychological states and attributes and judging changes in those based on some sort of intervention. A good example of this is a report just released by Child Trends. This report provides an instrument for measuring adolescent's self-concept. This is standard psychometric fare and could be useful, however, think about the viable alternatives. What if you asked youth to draw a self-portrait, or write a biographical sketch, or create a photo-essay that reflects how they think about themselves, and well you get the idea. Self-concept is, as the report suggests, and important consideration in youth oriented programming and thus in evaluation. So important, that we should be cautious about using simplistic indicators, just because they are there.
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September 9, 2008
Research Children's Experiences
This book, to be released in October, focuses on research rather than evaluation but many of the issues and strategies are relevant especially for participatory approaches to evaluation of programs and services for children. The book is published by Guilford Press.
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September 2, 2008
Public Good and Private Interest in Educational Evaluation
Public Good and Private Interest in Educational Evaluation
Cite as:
Mathison, S. (2009). Public Good and Private Interest in Educational Evaluation. In W. Ayers (Ed.). Handbook of social justice in education. New York: Routledge, pp. 5-14.
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September 1, 2008
NEW BOOK - The Nature and Limits of Standards Based Reform and Assessment
Edited by S. Mathison & E. W. Ross, published by Teachers College Press.
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July 27, 2008
quotable quotes
If you judge, investigate. Seneca
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February 9, 2008
Kelly Conference 2008
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