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The best available evidence : decision making for educational improvement /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Newton, Paul (Editor ), Burgess, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rotterdam, the Netherlands : SensePublishers, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.