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Modelling in Evaluating a Working Life Project in Higher Education
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Sarja, Anneli; Janhonen, Sirpa; Havukainen, Pirjo; Vesterinen, Anne – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2012
This article describes an evaluation method based on collaboration between the higher education, a care home and university, in a R&D project. The aim of the project was to elaborate modelling as a tool of developmental evaluation for innovation and competence in project cooperation. The approach was based on activity theory. Modelling enabled a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Models, Institutional Cooperation, Nursing Homes
Using Student Centred Evaluation for Curriculum Enhancement: An Examination of Undergraduate Physiotherapy Education in Relation to Physical Activity and Exercise Prescription
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O'Donoghue, Grainne; Doody, Catherine; Cusack, Tara – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine physiotherapy students' perceptions of current education content of entry-level physiotherapy programmes in terms of physical activity (PA) and exercise promotion and prescription (EPP). Sixty-two physiotherapy students from three Irish Universities participated. Three Structured Group Feedback Sessions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Physical Activities, Student Attitudes
What Should School-Based Evaluation Look Like?
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Ryan, Katherine E.; Chandler, Merrill; Samuels, Maurice – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
In this article, we report the results of an instrumental, mixed methods case study (Stake, 1995) of a culturally responsive school-based evaluation initiative. In studying culturally responsive school-based evaluation, we found some broader issues with school-based evaluation more generally. These challenges include what knowledge schools need to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Field Studies, Curriculum Development, School Based Management
The Comfort of Competence and the Uncertainty of Assessment
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Griffin, Patrick – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
This article argues that a "probabilistic" interpretation of competence can provide the basis for a link between assessment, teaching and learning, curriculum resources and policy development. Competence is regarded as a way of interpreting the quality of performance in a coherent series of hierarchical tasks. The work of Glaser is combined with…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Learning Theories, Competence, Policy Formation