Monitoring education : indicators, quality and effectiveness / Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor.

Series:

School development series (Continuum (Firm))

School development series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Great Britain--Evaluation.

Education.

Educational tests and measurements--Great Britain.

Educational tests and measurements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 1996 (2004 printing)

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this text, the author draws on her experience as creator of the ALIS project (A-Level Information System), a quality monitoring and feedback system in use in many parts of the UK. She asks the question how do we get quality into education? and uses the positive lessons of ALIS to analyze the requirements of an effective, value-added monitoring system.

Contents:

Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1; Part 2 Philosophical Approaches; Part 3 An Up-and-Running Indicator System; Part 4 Measurements for Monitoring Systems; Part 5 Basic Statistical Procedures for Monitoring; Part 6 The Design of Performance Indicator Systems; Part 7 The Impact of Monitoring on Other Systems; Part 8 Signing Off; Appendix 1 Chaotic Behaviour of a Very Simple Non-linear Equation; Appendix 2 Secondary Education in England and Wales: Comparisons with the USA; Appendix 3 UK Examination Boards: A Summary

Appendix 4 ALIS Indicators and FEFC Inspection Plans: A Booklet Written for CollegesReferences; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613206893

9781283206891

1283206897

9781441168436

1441168435

OCLC:

741687202