Second Order Learning In Developmental Evaluation

Author : Andrew Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319993713

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Second-order Learning in Developmental Evaluation by Andrew Mitchell Pdf

This book aims to account for how project learning and adaptation occurs through Developmental Evaluation (DE), especially under conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change. Drawing on enactive cognitive science, the author presents a DE framework designed to augment traditional monitoring and evaluation activities. Discussing this framework in detail, the author also reports upon an extended case project investigating the sustainability of a market town in the UK. The framework aims to support the reader in capturing second-order learning and exploring opportunities for innovative responses to dynamic, uncertain and complex operational conditions. Recommendations are offered for future research, and how the framework might be incorporated into the design and funding of projects deployed to work with wicked problems.

Author : Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606238868

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Developmental Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton Pdf

Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.

Author : Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319233475

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Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning by Shelleyann Scott,Donald E. Scott,Charles F. Webber Pdf

This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and cultures. Chapters focus on issues that directly impact the educational lives of teachers, students, parents, and caregivers. Importantly, the confluence of assessment practices and community expectations also are highlighted. Assessment is highly politicised in contemporary society and this book will both confirm and challenge readers’ beliefs and practices. Indeed, discerning readers will understand that the chapters offer them a bridge from many established assessment paradigms to pragmatic, ethical solutions that align with current expectations for schools and districts. In Part One, readers engage with concepts and skills needed by school learning leaders to guide optimal assessment practices. Part Two delves into student assessment within and across disciplines. Part Three provides pragmatic approaches that address assessment in the context of inclusive intercultural education, pluralism, and globalisation.

Author : Adam Hoare
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527539860

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Aspects of Digital Change by Adam Hoare Pdf

Digital change is a notoriously difficult endeavour to undertake. The public sector has engaged in many projects to embrace digitalisation. These include projects in health and social care, the benefits system, EU farm subsidy payments and child support payments, to name a few. Project timescales and budgets are over-run and aspects of the projects are sometimes abandoned with many millions of pounds sunk. In the private sector, companies such as Amazon use ‘test and learn’ approaches to build technology platforms that deliver real person-centred services. What is the difference between the Amazon approach and the failures we see in the use of public money? This book addresses this question beginning with examples of the development of technology in a range of industry sectors. It tells the story of what was learned over eight years in developing and selling digital platform technology into health and social care. By capturing the understanding gained from the experience, the book will enable the reader to become aware of why eCommerce and other digital platforms are flourishing in our private lives, whilst our experience of health and care remains rooted in the distant past.

Author : Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni,Diana Velasco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031458064

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Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces by Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni,Diana Velasco Pdf

This edited book draws on an international cohort of authors, all working towards sustainable, decolonizing human development for more just futures in a variety of learning spaces. Integrating sustainable human development with ‘reparative futures’, the chapters present diverse examples of how transformative learning spaces can be created through different participatory methodologies and with different stakeholders. The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, practitioners and policymakers in the areas of higher education, development studies and transformative innovation.

Author : Donna M. Mertens,Amy T. Wilson
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462503247

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Program Evaluation Theory and Practice by Donna M. Mertens,Amy T. Wilson Pdf

This engaging text takes an evenhanded approach to major theoretical paradigms in evaluation and builds a bridge from them to evaluation practice. Featuring helpful checklists, procedural steps, provocative questions that invite readers to explore their own theoretical assumptions, and practical exercises, the book provides concrete guidance for conducting large- and small-scale evaluations. Numerous sample studies—many with reflective commentary from the evaluators—reveal the process through which an evaluator incorporates a paradigm into an actual research project. The book shows how theory informs methodological choices (the specifics of planning, implementing, and using evaluations). It offers balanced coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Useful pedagogical features include: *Examples of large- and small-scale evaluations from multiple disciplines. *Beginning-of-chapter reflection questions that set the stage for the material covered. *"Extending your thinking" questions and practical activities that help readers apply particular theoretical paradigms in their own evaluation projects. *Relevant Web links, including pathways to more details about sampling, data collection, and analysis. *Boxes offering a closer look at key evaluation concepts and additional studies. *Checklists for readers to determine if they have followed recommended practice. *A companion website with resources for further learning.

Author : Jennifer A. Moon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136763649

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Reflection in Learning and Professional Development by Jennifer A. Moon Pdf

Reflection is a technique for aiding and reinforcing learning, used in education and professional development. This volume offers practitioners and students guidance that cuts across theoretical approaches, enabling them to understand and use reflection to enhance learning in practice.

Author : Yiming Cao,Zsolt Lavicza ,Shuhua An,Lianchun Dong
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832546901

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Psychological Studies in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Mathematics by Yiming Cao,Zsolt Lavicza ,Shuhua An,Lianchun Dong Pdf

There is no doubt that the onset of a new decade has brought high expectations of academic progress for scholars, especially for researchers in mathematics education. The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education was born in 1976, which focused on the international exchange of knowledge in the psychology of mathematics education, the promotion of interdisciplinary research with psychologists, mathematicians and mathematics teachers, and the development of the psychological aspects of teaching and learning mathematics and its implications.

Author : Lynn Clouder,Christine Broughan,Steve Jewell,Graham Steventon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136729751

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Improving Student Engagement and Development through Assessment by Lynn Clouder,Christine Broughan,Steve Jewell,Graham Steventon Pdf

With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to succeed. Against a backdrop of massification and the associated increase in student diversity there is an escalating requirement for personalized, technology driven learning in higher education. In addition, the advent of student fees has promoted a consumer culture resulting in students having an increasingly powerful voice in shaping curricula to their own requirements. How does one engage and retain a group of students of such diverse culture, ethnicity, ambition and experience? Using examples from a variety of institutions worldwide this edited collection provides a well-researched evidence base of current thinking and developments in assessment practices in higher education. The chapters discuss: Staff and student views on assessment Engaging students through assessment feedback Assessment for learning Assessing for employability Interdisciplinary and transnational assessment Technology supported assessment for retention The book draws together a wealth of expertise from a range of contributors including academic staff, academic developers, pedagogical researchers, National Teaching Fellows and Centres for Excellence in Higher Education. Recognising that a pedagogy which is embedded and taken-for-granted in one context might be completely novel in another, the authors share best practice and evaluate evidence of assessment strategies to enable academic colleagues to make informed decisions about adopting new and creative approaches to assessment. This interdisciplinary text will prove an invaluable tool for those working and studying in higher education.

Author : Kathryn E. Newcomer,Steven W. Mumford
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781803928289

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Research Handbook on Program Evaluation by Kathryn E. Newcomer,Steven W. Mumford Pdf

In the Research Handbook on Program Evaluation, an impressive range of authors take stock of the history and current standing of key issues and debates in the evaluation field. Examining current literature of program evaluation, the Research Handbook assesses the field's status in a post-pandemic and social justice-oriented world, examining today’s theoretical and practical concerns and proposing how they might be resolved by future innovations. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121660752

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International Journal of Sustainable Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert A. Ellis,Peter Goodyear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351135856

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The Education Ecology of Universities by Robert A. Ellis,Peter Goodyear Pdf

Many universities around the world are finding that the structures and processes they have put in place to further their educational missions are being tested by rapidly changing circumstances. These changes involve new pedagogies, new course designs, new technologies and updating of the physical campus; reflecting diversifying student needs, growing student numbers, increasing competition and more demanding stakeholder expectations. The Education Ecology of Universities examines these issues, starting with the challenges identified by university leaders who have responsibility for education, digital and campus planning. Sharing an analysis of in-depth interviews with more than 50 leaders, it identifies a range of conceptual and procedural gaps that undermine the full development and alignment of education, digital and campus strategies. The second half of the book provides practical ideas for taking a more holistic – indeed ecological – approach to understanding and improving university learning environments. Setting out a case for a new applied science of educational ecology, this book offers foundational concepts and theoretical perspectives, introducing methods for analysing and evaluating teaching and learning ecosystems. It will be of interest to anyone who wants better ways of understanding how local systems function and can be improved. It is a must-read text for all leaders and researchers in education, and indeed for anyone concerned with the future of higher education.

Author : Frank Van Overwalle
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134956067

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Social Connectionism by Frank Van Overwalle Pdf

Many of our thoughts and decisions occur without us being conscious of them taking place; connectionism attempts to reveal the internal hidden dynamics that drive the thoughts and actions of both individuals and groups. Connectionist modeling is a radically innovative approach to theorising in psychology, and more recently in the field of social psychology. The connectionist perspective interprets human cognition as a dynamic and adaptive system that learns from its own direct experiences or through indirect communication from others. Social Connectionism offers an overview of the most recent theoretical developments of connectionist models in social psychology. The volume is divided into four sections, beginning with an introduction and overview of social connectionism. This is followed by chapters on causal attribution, person and group impression formation, and attitudes. Each chapter is followed by simulation exercises that can be carried out using the FIT simulation program; these guided exercises allow the reader to reproduce published results. Social Connectionism will be invaluable to graduate students and researchers primarily in the field of social psychology, but also in cognitive psychology and connectionist modeling.

Author : Rebecca Jackson,Ronald Roesch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317681236

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Learning Forensic Assessment by Rebecca Jackson,Ronald Roesch Pdf

Major developments in the field since the publication of Learning Forensic Assessment are integrated in this revised edition, including revised editions of the DSM-5, HCR-20 scale, and child custody guidelines. This textbook is designed for graduate students learning forensic assessment and psychologists coming to forensic practice later in their careers. It is organized around five broad areas: Professional and Practice Issues, Adult Forensic Assessment, Juvenile Forensic Assessment, Civil Forensic Assessment, and Communicating Your Findings. Each chapter begins with a strong teaching and learning foundation. The latter part of each chapter is assessment specific, covering available assessment measures and approaches to assessment. The authors go well beyond simple descriptions of assessment measures and provide a conceptual discussion of the evaluation process that helps the reader understand how assessment measures fit into the overall evaluation process. The evaluation component is geared toward assessing the important aspects of the construct as laid out in the early part of each chapter. Each chapter then concludes with a case example to illustrate the measures and techniques described.

Author : Elizabeth Dozois,Natasha Blanchet-Cohen,Marc Langlois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Action research
ISBN : 1550584243

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DE 201 by Elizabeth Dozois,Natasha Blanchet-Cohen,Marc Langlois Pdf

Developmental evaluation has emerged fairly recently as a way to support adaptive learning in complex and emergent initiatives. Combining the rigour of evaluation with the flexibility and imagination required for development, this new form of evaluation brings critical thinking to bear on the creative process in initiatives involving high levels of uncertainty, innovation, emergence, and social complexity.