Monitoring Education

ISBN: 9780826454614 出版年：1996 页码：272 Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon Bloomsbury Publishing

Part 1 Introduction: four kinds of data experiments - finding out the effects of actions do we really need performance indicators? Part 2 Philosophical approaches: science and complexity coping with complexity. Part 3 An up-and-running indicator system: the ALIS project. Part 4 Measurements for monitoring systems: measuring achievement - problems and conflicts assessment - some "solutions". including an assessment transcript assessing vocational courses measuring attitudes measuring processes assessing the quality of measurements. Part 5 Basic statistical procedures for monitoring: value added relative ratings - assessing the relative performance of departments using a single set of examination data aggregation and segregation - what does "means on means" mean? Part 6 The design of performance idicator systems: a general rationale for the design of performance indicator systems the development and use of indicator systems further generations of indicators - monitoring systems evolve. Part 7 The impact of monitoring on other systems: wanted - better management performance-related pay or "merit pay" - a dead alley LEA's - is resuscitation overdue? inspection - the accounts are overdue politics could be so much better universities - just another kind og business, or something else?