Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education: The Practice Turn

Informationen zum Autor Murray Saunders is Co Director of HERE@LANCASTER and Professor of Evaluation in Education and Work in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University! UK. Paul Trowler is Co Director of HERE@LANCASTER and Professor of Higher Education! in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University! UK. Veronica Bamber is Director of the Centre for Academic Practice at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She has worked as an educational developer for nine years and previously was a lecturer in Spanish for 18 years! teaching at four different universities around the UK. Her current research is in the evaluation and analysis of learning and teaching development through the development of staff. Klappentext "I congratulate the authors on what I believe will be a very interesting and useful book. The language is accessible and the structure of the argument is coherent and consistent... This is a very interesting and significant contribution to the field of higher education in general and scholarship in evaluative practices in particular." Judyth Sachs! Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost at Macquarie University! Sydney! Australia. A considerable amount of time and effort is invested in attempts tocontrol! change and improve the higher education sector. Theseattempts involve evaluative practice! but we have not yetconceptualised the evaluations that take place so therefore theopportunity to understand the value and nature of different typesof intervention is frequently missed. This book seeks to dismantle traditional boundaries in approachesto evaluation! assessing how value and worth is attributed toactivities in higher education. It looks at evaluative practice inHigher Education rather than the evaluation of Higher Education. Reconceptualising Evaluative Practices in HE: The Practice Turn aims to aid understanding! drawing on a set of evaluative practices from the UK and internationally. The book will be of value and relevance to higher education providers and policy makers within higher education. Contributors Veronica Bamber! Margo Blythman! Val Chapman! Bernadette Charlier! Rob Cuthbert! Harry Hubball! Kerri-Lee Krause! Neil Lent! Alan McCluskey! Ian McNay! Joan Machell! John M. Owen! Marion L. Pearson! Michael Prosser! Christoph Rosenbusch! Murray Saunders! Uwe Schmidt! Alison Shreeve! Paul Trowler! Massimiliano Vaira! Christine Winberg. Zusammenfassung This book evaluates the impact of projects to improve teaching and learning in Higher Education! focusing on evaluative practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures List of tables List of contributors Setting the scene: The four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education The Higher Education policy context of evaluative practices Part one: National systemic evaluative practice: power and regulation National systemic evaluative practices: power and regulation Evaluation as ceremony in the Italian university system Student 'satisfaction' or student 'experience': interpreting and acting on evaluation results Research assessment: work in progress! or la 'lutta continua' The elephant in the room: evaluating postgraduate education in South Africa Evaluative practices and outcomes: Issues at the national level Part two: Programmatic evaluative practice Programmatic evaluative practice in Higher Education: design diversity and degrees of programme alignment The national programme of Centres for Excellence for Teaching and Learning (CETLS) in England and Northern Ireland: a theory-driven evaluation of change Foregrounding social interaction in programme evaluation: an evaluation of an innovative pre-service teacher education initiative in Australia Evaluation as deep learning: a holistic perspective on evaluation in the PALETTE proj...

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• Autori: Roni Bamber, Veronica Bamber, Veronica Saunders Bamber, Murray Saunders, Murray Bamber Saunders, Murray Trowler Saunders, Paul Trowler
• Con la collaborazione di: Veronica Bamber (Editore), Murray Saunders (Editore), Paul Trowler (Editore)
• Editore: Open University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780335241606
• ISBN: 978-0-335-24160-6
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: SAP; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Higher Education OUP; SAP
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione