Scale-up in education / edited by Barbara Schneider and Sarah-Kathryn McDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Barbara L.

McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007-

Summary:

Scale-Up in Education, Volume I: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of "scaling up" from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely make promising innovations in scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together, the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provide theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales. Specially commissioned commentaries also discuss the analytical requirements and theoretical possibilities of a program of educational research on scale-up built on these foundations. This volume is ideally suited for researchers, policymakers, and graduate students charged with determining the effectiveness of educational interventions. With its insights into the conceptual and methodological prerequisites for obtaining rigorous, actionable evidence of intervention effects, this volume provides reading for program evaluation courses in schools of education and public policy.

Contents:

v. 1. Ideas in principle

v. 2. Issues in practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.

ISBN:

0742547302

0742547310

0742546608

0742546616

OCLC:

70060957

Publisher Number:

9780742547308

9780742547315

9780742546608

9780742546615