Evaluating educational reforms
Subtitle: Scandinavian perspectives
By: edited by Peder Haug and Thomas A. Schwandt.
Contributors: Haug, Peder, 1947-; Schwandt, Thomas A.
Series: Evaluation and society
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Educational evaluation -- Scandinavia -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.; Educational evaluation -- Norway -- Congresses.; Educational change -- Scandinavia -- Evaluation -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.; Action research in education -- Scandinavia -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies; Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a seminar held at Oslo in October 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: The Research Council of Norway evaluating Reform '97 / Peder Haug; Challenges and dilemmas for the evaluation of Reform '97 / Lars Monsen; Models of evaluation / Evert Vedung; From basic research to evaluation / Gunnar Stangvik; What's being done in the name of evaluation?: experiences drawn from the recent evaluation of schooling reforms in Switzerland / Heinz Rhyn; The political governing (governance) of education and evaluation / Ulf P. Lundgren; On the evaluation of curriculum reforms / Stefan Thomas Hopmann; Democratic evaluation: an arena for dialogue and learning? / Ove Karlsson; Democratic evaluation and evaluation for learning: reply to Ove Karlsson / Gunn Imsen; Linking evaluation and education: enlightenment and engagement / Thomas A. Schwandt; Evaluating a national curriculum reform / Ian Westbury.