Monitoring education : indicators, quality, and effectiveness /: indicators, quality, and effectiveness. (1996)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon.
• Other Names: Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor
• Contents: Four kinds of data -- Experiments: finding out the effects of actions -- Do we really need performance indicators? -- Philosophical approaches -- Science and complexity -- Coping with complexity -- An up-and-running indicator system -- The ALIS project -- Measurements for monitoring systems -- Measuring achievement: problems and conflicts -- Assessment: some 'solutions', including an assessment transcript -- Assessing vocational courses -- Measuring attitudes -- Measuring processes -- Assessing the quality of measurements -- Basic statistical procedures for monitoring -- Value added -- Relative ratings: assessing the relative performance of departments using a single set of examination data -- Aggregation and segregation: what does 'means on means' mean? -- The design of performance indicator systems -- A general rationale for the design of performance indicator systems -- The development and use of indicator systems -- Further generations of indicators: monitoring systems evolve -- The impact of monitoring on other systems -- Wanted: better management -- Performance-related pay or 'merit pay': a dead alley? -- LEA's: is resuscitation overdue? -- Inspection: the accounts are overdue -- Politics could be so much better -- Universities: just another kind of business, or something else? -- Signing off -- Chaotic behaviour of a very simple non-linear equation -- Secondary education in England and Wales: comparisons with the USA -- UK Examination Boards: a summary -- ALIS indicators and FEFC Inspection plans: a booklet written for Colleges.
• Publisher Details: London New York, N.Y., USA : Cassell
• Publication Date: 1996
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 379.1540941; Education -- Great Britain -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements -- Great Britain; EDUCATION -- Finance; Education -- Evaluation; Educational tests and measurements; Evaluation; Onderwijsevaluatie; Monitoring; Schule; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441168436; 1441168435
• Related ISBNs: 0304330701; 9780304330706; 0304329835; 9780304329830; 0826454615; 9780826454614
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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