Premature Evaluation? Measuring the Impact of New Community Schools
| Autor: | Julie Allan, Greg Mannion, Jill Duffield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Zdroj: | Scottish Educational Review. 36:145-158 |
| ISSN: | 2773-0840 0141-9072 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/27730840-03602003 |
| Popis: | This paper considers the development of the New Community Schools (NCS) Initiative in Scotland and reports on attempts to evaluate the early stages of NCS in partnership with one local authority. We then consider the issues and tensions which have arisen for integration managers across Scotland, the individuals charged with operationalising this initiative in most local authorities, and who are under considerable pressure to demonstrate progress against outcome measures within a very short time frame. We argue that, at a local level at least, conventional evaluation frameworks are unlikely to work because they cannot account for the changing patterns of practice, knowledge and relationships required by this radical initiative. We outline the new kinds of thinking required to enable this radical initiative to be evaluated and consider the usefulness of the framework of social capital to evaluate the new networks, norms and knowledge created through NCS. |
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