Evaluation and educational reform
Subtitle: policy options
By: Benjamín Alvarez H., Mónica Ruiz-Casares, editors
Series: Education policy in Latin America and the Caribbean -- technical paper 3
Publisher: U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Office of Regional Sustainable Development, Education and Human Resources Division; ABEL2 Project, Academy for Educational Development
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Educational evaluation; Educational change; Education and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The contribution of evaluation to the learning of nations  -- Benjamín Alvarez H.; title: Monitoring national educationsl performance  -- Thomas Kellaghan; title: Evaluation and curriculum standards indicator systems in an era of educational reform  -- Gilbert A. Valverde; title: International monitoring of the goals of human development: the case of the Secrectariat Pro Tempore of the Americas  -- María Inés Cuadros; title: Social impact of educational performance evaluations systems: the case of Chile  -- Erika Himmel; title: The system for evaluating the quality of education in Colombia  -- Gabriel Restrepo; title: The evaluation of teachers  -- Carol Dwyer; title: Evaluating teacher performance in Latin America -- Franciso Alvarez Martín; title: Evaluating the performance of individual schools  -- William J. Webster and Robert L. Mendro; title: Monitoring and evaluation of educational reform initiatives in the state of Paraná, Brazil  -- Maria Teresa de la Fuente, Heloisa Luck, and Corinna Ramos; title: Building a state evaluation system: the experience of the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico  -- Margarita Maria Zorilla Fierro; title: Challenges and policy options for educational evaluation  -- Benjamín Alvarez H. and Ray Chesterfield; title: International perspectives on standards and assessment: a selected bibliography -- Teresa Kavanaugh.