Reconceptualising evaluation in higher education : the practice turn

Author(s)

• Saunders, Murray
• Trowler, Paul R.
• Bamber, Veronica

Bibliographic Information

Reconceptualising evaluation in higher education : the practice turn

editors, Murray Saunders, Paul Trowler and Veronica Bamber

（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）

McGraw-Hill/Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2011

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"I congratulate the authors on what I believe will be a very interesting and useful book. The language is accessible and the structure of the argument is coherent and consistent ... This is a very interesting and significant contribution to the field of higher education in general and scholarship in evaluative practices in particular." Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia."With an increasing and, arguably, troubling confidence in the use of international league tables, student surveys and research ratings to 'evidence' the value of higher education, such scrutiny of higher education evaluation practices has never been more timely ... I believe the book may contribute most ... in empowering evaluators themselves to ensure that the outcomes of evaluation can be used to inform strategic priorities and decisionmaking in more meaningful ways." Higher Education Review, Vol 44, No 1, October 2011.A considerable amount of time and effort is invested in attempts to control, change and improve the higher education sector. These attempts involve evaluative practice, but we have not yet conceptualised the evaluations that take place so therefore the opportunity to understand the value and nature of different types of intervention is frequently missed.This book seeks to dismantle traditional boundaries in approaches to evaluation, assessing how value and worth is attributed to activities in higher education. It looks at evaluative practice in Higher Education rather than the evaluation of Higher Education.Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education aims to aid understanding, drawing on a set of evaluative practices from the UK and internationally. The book will be of value and relevance to higher education providers and policy makers within higher education.Contributors Veronica Bamber, Margo Blythman, Val Chapman, Bernadette Charlier, Rob Cuthbert, Harry Hubball, Kerri-Lee Krause, Neil Lent, Alan McCluskey, Ian McNay, Joan Machell, John M. Owen, Marion L. Pearson, Michael Prosser, Christoph Rosenbusch, Murray Saunders, Uwe Schmidt, Alison Shreeve, Paul Trowler, Massimiliano Vaira, Christine Winberg.

Table of Contents

List of figures List of tables List of contributorsSetting the scene: The four domains of evaluative practice in Higher Education The Higher Education policy context of evaluative practices Part one: National systemic evaluative practice: power and regulation National systemic evaluative practices: power and regulation Evaluation as ceremony in the Italian university system Student 'satisfaction' or student 'experience': interpreting and acting on evaluation results Research assessment: work in progress, or la 'lutta continua' The elephant in the room: evaluating postgraduate education in South Africa Evaluative practices and outcomes: Issues at the national level Part two: Programmatic evaluative practice Programmatic evaluative practice in Higher Education: design diversity and degrees of programme alignment The national programme of Centres for Excellence for Teaching and Learning (CETLS) in England and Northern Ireland: a theory-driven evaluation of change Foregrounding social interaction in programme evaluation: an evaluation of an innovative pre-service teacher education initiative in Australia Evaluation as deep learning: a holistic perspective on evaluation in the PALETTE project A social practice approach to the evaluation of enhancement strategies in the Quality Enhancement Framework for Scottish Universities Insights into programmatic evaluative practice in HE: A commentary Part three: Institutional evaluative practice Institutional evaluative practices: quality, enhancement and regulation Failing the challenge of institutional evaluation: how and why managerialism flourishes Whole-of-university strategies for evaluating the student experience Emphasizing the social dimension of scientific organizations: institutional evaluation at Mainz University Tensions between professional and organizational development: towards meaningful evaluative practices for all Evaluative practices and outcomes: issues at the institutional level Part four: Self-evaluative practice Self-evaluative practice: diversity and power Appreciative inquiry as evaluation: enhancing and developing academic practice Evaluating a UK centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: bottom-up evaluation in a top-down setting 'Tell us about it!' Evaluating what helps students from diverse backgrounds to succeed at the University of the Arts London Scholarly approaches to curriculum evaluation: critical contributions for undergraduate degree programme reform in a Canadian context Evaluative practices and outcomes: issues at the self-evaluative level Part five: Overview The practice turn: reconceptualising evaluation in Higher Education References Index

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Details

• NCID: BB06213901
• ISBN:
  • 9780335241613
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Maidenhead
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 247 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 378.0071
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : College teachers -- Training of -- Great Britain -- Evaluation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23280588