A National Developmental and Negotiated Approach to School and Curriculum Evaluation

Mei Kuin Lai, Saville Kushner

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781781907054
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance. New Zealand offers a distinctive, systemic alternative to school self-evaluation, with developmental and negotiated approaches ingrained throughout the education system, from school inspection to major government schooling improvement initiatives. In New Zealand there is no national testing, other than a Ministry-sponsored (voluntary) formative assessment system designed for school and teacher self-evaluation. This is a form of professional and program evaluation where there is shared power and responsibility between evaluators and those being evaluated. Through a detailed national case study of New Zealand, together with commentaries from international specialists, this volume examines the successes and challenges of this approach to programme evaluation and its generalizability to other educational and professional review settings, and show how education systems can recover a balance between an achievement agenda and a focus on educational quality.

Table of contents

• FRONT COVER
• A DEVELOPMENTAL AND NEGOTIATED APPROACH TO SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE: WALKING BACKWARDS INTO THE FUTURE
• ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION THROUGH SCHOOL SELF-EVALUATION
• SECTION 1: THE NEW ZEALAND CASE
• SECTION 2: INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTS
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS