TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skilbeck, Malcolm 
TI  - Evaluating the curriculum in the eighties
SN  - 0340352167
AV  - LB2806.15 EVA 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder and Stoughton
KW  - Curriculum evaluation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction, 1 - Cultural analysis  and curriculum evaluation, 2 - The evaluation and improvement of provision for general education, 3 - The politics of evaluating, 4 - The problems of confidentiality, 5 - Issues in curriculum evaluation at the local level, 6 - Institution-based curriculum evaluation, 7 - Institutional evaluation: the process within a school, 8 - Evaluation in school curriculum management, 9 - Policies and procedures of a major education  authority, 10 - Curriculum evaluation at the National level, 11 - The political and organisational context of curriculum evaluation, 12 - National policy and local initiative: the Scottish approach, 13 - Examinations and evaluation, 14 - Perspectives on the assessment of performance unit, 15 - The schools council: an evaluation from a research perspective
N2  - This book presents edited version of papers which highly experienced group of educators, who have specialised in evaluating varied aspects of curriculum policy, design development and implementation, read at a British Council sponsored seminar whose participants  participants came from many different countries. The subjects covered include the newer movements found in the United Kingdom: institutional self evaluation, action research, national performance testing and national guidelines for school review, as well as longer established ideas and procedures, including the role of examinations and of agencies such as the Schools Council.
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