The case for participatory evaluation: theory, research, practice / J. Bradley Cousins and Lorna M. Earl -- District-wide evaluation of school improvement: a system partners approach / Lorna M. Earl -- A participatory approach to district-level program evaluation: the dynamics of internal evaluation / Clay Lafleur -- Assessing program needs using participatory evaluation: a comparison of high and marginal success cases / J. Bradley Cousins -- Participation in evaluation of funded school improvement: effects and supporting conditions / Linda E. Lee and J. Bradley Cousins -- Involving practitioners in evaluation studies: how viable is collaborative evaluation in schools? / Jean A. King -- The many modes of participatory evaluation / Michael Huberman -- Inviting collaboration: insights into researcher-school community partnerships / Lyn M. Shulha and Robert J. Wilson -- Using participatory evaluation in an international context / Donna M. Mertens, Terry R. Berkeley and Susan D. Lopez -- Participatory evaluation in education: what do we know? where do we go? / J. Bradley Cousins and Lorna M. Earl.
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Further, it will clarify an agenda for research to increase understanding of the organizational benefits of this type of collaborative systematic inquiry.
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This is a book about change in educational organizations. Participatory evaluation is an approach that involves teachers and educational administrators as partners with researchers in a broad range of school and school-based evaluation tasks with the explicit goal of using such data to improve practice. It is a natural, suitable and effective approach to school improvement and educational change. Although participatory applied research strategies are growing in popularity, there is a paucity of documented empirical support for the approach. By presenting a set of original empirical studies and a critical analysis of them, this book adds to our knowledge about variations in approach, conditions that support it, its viability within the culture of the schools and school systems and its likely impact defined in terms of the use of research data and organizational learning.