Overview
- The book combines research for the improvement of K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions
- This volume provides a critical analysis of evidence informed policy and practice
- The book explores the relative merits of multiple types and sources of evidence in educational improvement
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About this book
Many current texts provide an instrumental resource for educational leaders for use in designing road maps for improvement. As such, these texts offer a perspective based on assumptions that educational personnel are the recipients of predetermined knowledge and evidence, and it is the task of instructors and teachers to implement received knowledge of “best practice”. In this book, we suggest that teachers, instructors, educational leaders, and policy makers are equally engaged in the creation of knowledge and the establishment of improvement objectives. Further, we address questions concerning what constitutes improvement, how practitioners and policy makers can assess the utility and veracity of evidence, and how evidence might be considered in productive and ethical ways. This volume is intended for a broad readership of teachers, post-secondary instructors, graduate students, educational leaders, and policy makers. Finally, this book will combine K-12 perspectives on educational improvement with perspectives from the research on post-secondary improvement.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Best Available Evidence
Book Subtitle: Decision Making for Educational Improvement
Editors: Paul Newton, David Burgess
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-438-1
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-438-1Published: 15 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 184
Topics: Education, general