The best available evidence : : decision making for educational improvement / / edited by Paul Newton and David Burgess.
In The Best Available Evidence: Decision-Making for Educational Improvement, the editors and contributing authors explore the intricacies of working with data and evidence for the purpose or organizational development in educational institutions. A broad theme that runs throughout this book is the n...
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Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Taipei, [Taiwan] : : Sense Publishers,, 2016. ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | First edition 2016. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 184 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Evidence-Driven Policy and Practice in Education: Issues of Veracity in Quantitatively Based Research
- Issues with Evidence in Constructivist/Interpretivist Educational Research
- Exploring Types of Educational Action Research: Implications for Research Validity
- Narrative, Insight, and Effective Decision Making in Education
- Values, Virtues, and Human Capabilities: A Positive Perspective on Educational Improvement
- The Cartography of Success: Mapping the Education Data Terrain toward Ethical Practice for Continuous Improvement
- Learning Organisations and Their Relationship to Educational Improvement
- The Assessment Imperative: Evidence-Based Decision Making in Student Affairs
- Change and Improvement in Post-Secondary Education
- Decision Making and Problems of Evidence for Emerging Educational Technologies
- Epilogue: Evidence and the Research-Practice Gap in Education
- About the Contributors
- Index.