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Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I - The Educational Evaluation Context

Chapter 1 - Globalization and Policy Research in Education

Chapter 2 - Globalizing Influences on the Western Evaluation Imaginary

Chapter 3 - Fundamental Evaluation Issues in a Global Society

Part II - The Role of Science in Educational Evaluation

Chapter 4 - Evaluation, Method Choices, and Pathways to Consequences: Trying to Make Sense of How Evaluation Can Contribute to Sensemaking

Chapter 5 - Randomized Experiments and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Educational Research

Chapter 6 - Enhancing Impact Evidence on How Global Education Initiatives Work: Theory, Epistemological Foundations, and Principles for Applying Multiphase, Mixed Method Designs

Chapter 7 - The Evaluation of the Georgia Pre-K Program: An Example of a Scientific Evaluation of an Early Education Program

Chapter 8 - Globalization—Blessing and Bane in Empirical Evaluation: Lessons in Three Acts

Chapter 9 - Science-Based Educational Evaluation and Student Learning in a Global Society: A Critical Appraisal

Part III - Educational Evaluation, Capacity Building, and Monitoring

Chapter 10 - Evaluation, Accountability, and Performance Measurement in National Education Systems: Trends, Methods, and Issues

Chapter 11 - A Precarious Balance: Educational Evaluation Capacity Building in a Globalized Society

Chapter 12 - International Assessments and Indicators: How Will Assessments and Performance Indicators Improve Educational Policies and Practices in a Globalized Society?

Chapter 13 - Exemplary Case: Implementing Large-Scale Assessment of Education in Mexico

Chapter 14 - Inquiry-Minded District Leaders: Evaluation as Inquiry, Inquiry as Practice

Chapter 15 - Where Global Meets Local: Contexts, Constraints, and Consensus in School Evaluation in Ireland

Chapter 16 - Accountability and Capacity Building: Can They Live Together?

Part IV - Educational Evaluation as Learning and Discovery

Chapter 17 - Learning-Oriented Educational Evaluation in Contemporary Society

Chapter 18 - Meaningfully Engaging With Difference Through Mixed Methods Educational Evaluation

Chapter 19 - Case Study Methods in Educational Evaluation

Chapter 20 - Developing a Community of Practice: Learning and Transformation Through Evaluation

Chapter 21 - Learning-in-(Inter)Action: A Dialogical Turn to Evaluation and Learning

Chapter 22 - Educational Evaluation as Mediated Mutual Learning

Part V - Educational Evaluation in a Political World

Chapter 23 - Own Goals: Democracy, Evaluation, and Rights in Millennium Projects

Chapter 24 - Reclaiming Knowledge at the Margins: Culturally Responsive Evaluation in the Current Evaluation Moment

Chapter 25 - Evaluation for and by Navajos: A Narrative Case of the Irrelevance of Globalization

Chapter 26 - Dialogue, Deliberation, and Democracy in Educational Evaluation: Theoretical Arguments and a Case Narrative

Chapter 27 - Pursuing the Wrong Indicators?: The Development and Impact of Test-Based Accountability

Part VI - Educational Evaluation: Opportunities and New Dilemmas

Chapter 28 - Evaluation and Educational Policymaking

Chapter 29 - Technology and Educational Evaluation

Chapter 30 - Serving the Public Interest Through Educational Evaluation: Salvaging Democracy by Rejecting Neoliberalism

Chapter 31 - Dilemmas for Educational Evaluation in a Globalized Society

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors