The Best Available Evidence Decision Making for Educational Improvement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Newton, Paul (Editor), Burgess, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.