Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Conference, Orlando FL, November, 2009 Session #608, Friday November 13, 3:35-4:20 p.m. #2009Conference #CostsEffectivenessBenefitsandEconomics #Evaluation2009
Struggling Schools cost.pdf
Target audiences include evaluators, policy makers, education agencies, and school reform practitioners
AEA-School Turnaround-Design Considerations_2016-10-24_final.pdf
Despite exponential growth of charter schools and charter management organizations (CMOs), there is little research on how CMOs utilize social capital, the resources embedded in social systems (Daly & Finnigan, 2010). Using social network analysis (Cross, Borgatti, & Parker, 2002), this...
Charter Management Organizations and Charter.ppt
The pilot of Microsoft's Innovative Schools Program has aimed to support 12 diverse schools around the globe - secondary schools and primary schools, private and public, schools in traditional systems and schools that are breaking the mold. What the schools have in common is a desire to prepare...
Gorges_Innovation Around the World_AEA 2009_public.pdf
Review of charter school evaluation practice in three areas: (1) large-scale policy evaluation, (2) high-stakes (renewal) evaluation, and (3) evaluation for program improvement. Addresses current trends and diffculties, as well as opportunities for the future. #policy #evaluation ...
Review of charter school evaluation practice.pdf
Session Description: All evaluators deal with unintended events that foul their evaluation plans. Either the program does not work as planned, or the evaluation does not work as planned, or both. Usually we treat these situations as fires, i.e. we exercise our skills to meet the crisis. This...
AEA CDC 06_09_2010 no links.ppt
The current narrative of accountability is constructed through a neo-liberal economic perspective that is hegemonic and difficult to modify and reformulate so that the same evaluations can serve the masters of learning and bureaucratic accountability. Building on Vaclev Havel’s notions of...
Accountability and Learning, Mathison AEA13.doc
Including students with disabilities under the regulations of NCLB has been controversial since the law was approved. According to Darling-Hammond (2007), approximately one-third of public schools have been classified as failing to meet AYP with projections reaching as high as 80% of schools...
High Stakes Tests.doc
This panel addressed strategies for promoting evaluation use in a variety of nonprofit settings. Panelists shared their perspectives on the multiple roles evaluators inhabit; working with stakeholders to promote use throughout the evaluation process, developing a theory of action with...
AEA 2012 Eval Use-Full Slide Deck v2.pptx
Nonprofit organizations have become more sophisticated in evaluating and reporting on their effectiveness and impact. However, internal systems often need to be built and maintained to ensure that evaluation information is used to address stakeholder reporting needs and to promote...
AEA_2011.11.02_Promoting Eval Use Joint Presentation_FINAL.pptx