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List of figures | p. x |
List of tables | p. xi |
List of contributors | p. xii |
Setting the scene: the four domains of evaluative practice in higher education | p. 1 |
The Higher Education policy context of evaluative practices | p. 18 |
National systemic evaluative practice: power and regulation | p. 33 |
National systemic evaluative practice: power and regulation | p. 35 |
Evaluation as ceremony in the Italian university system | p. 40 |
Student 'satisfaction' or student 'experience': interpreting and acting on evaluation results | p. 46 |
Research assessment: work in progress, or 'la lutta continua' | p. 51 |
The elephant in the room: evaluating postgraduate education in South Africa | p. 58 |
Evaluative practices and outcomes: issues at the national level | p. 66 |
Programmatic evaluative practice | p. 75 |
Programmatic evaluative practice in Higher Education:design diversity and degrees of programme alignmentMurray Saunders | p. 77 |
The national programme of Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) in England and Northern Ireland: a theory driven evaluation of change | p. 88 |
Foregrounding social interaction in programme evaluation: an evaluation of an innovative pre-service teacher education initiative in Australia | p. 90 |
Evaluation as deep learning: a holistic perspective on evaluation in the Palette project | p. 98 |
A social practice approach to the evaluation of enhancement strategies in the Quality Enhancement Framework for Scottish universities | p. 105 |
Insights into programmatic evaluative practice in HE: a commentary | p. 113 |
Institutional evaluative practice | |
Institutional evaluative practice: quality, enhancement and regulation | p. 127 |
Failing the challenge of institutional evaluation: how and why managerialism flourishes | p. 133 |
Whole-of-university strategies for evaluating the student experience | p. 139 |
Emphasizing the social dimension of scientific organizations: institutional evaluation at Mainz University | p. 145 |
Tensions between professional and organizational development: towards meaningful evaluative practices for all | p. 150 |
Evaluative practice and outcomes: issues at the institutional level | p. 163 |
Self-evaluative practice | |
p. 165 | |
Appreciative Inquiry as evaluation: enhancing and developing academic practice | p. 171 |
Evaluating a UK Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: bottom-up evaluation in a top-down setting | p. 177 |
'Tell us about it!' Evaluating what helps students from diverse backgrounds to succeed at the University of the Arts London | p. 181 |
Scholarly approaches to curriculum evaluation: critical contributions for undergraduate degree program reform in a Canadian context | p. 186 |
Evaluative practice and outcomes: issues at the self-evaluative level | p. 193 |
Overview | p. 201 |
The practice turn: reconceptualising evaluation in higher education | p. 203 |
References | p. 227 |
Index | p. 245 |
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