Evaluating the effectiveness of academic development : principles and practice / / edited by Lorraine Stefani

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.71; 378.1/97
• Soggetto topico: Comparative education; Educational equalization; Multicultural education
• Altri autori: StefaniLorraine <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I: Evaluation of Academic Practice; 1 Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development: An Overview; 2 Locating Academic Development: The First Step in Evaluation; 3 The Quality Agenda: Where Does Academic Development Sit?; 4 Demonstrating Fitness for Purpose: Phronesis and Authenticity as Overarching Purposes; 5 Using Student Survey Data to Shape: Priorities and Approaches; 6 Innovation and Change: Responding to a Digital Environment; II: Case Studies of Evaluative Practice ; Case Study 1: Whaia te pae tawhiti: Maori Academic Development at the University of AucklandCase Study 2: Academic Partnership: Peer Mentoring with Early-Career Academics; Case Study 3: Tending the Secret Garden: Evaluating a Doctoral Skills Programme; Case Study 4: Evaluation as Bricolage: Cobbling Together a Strategy for Appraising Supervision Development; Case Study 5: Archiving for the Future: A Longitudinal Approach to Evaluating a Postgraduate Certificate Programme; Case Study 6: Tracking the Invisible: An eLearning Group's Approach to Evaluation ; Case Study 7: Continuous Improvement Projects: Whose Evaluation Matters?Case Study 8: Leadership Programmes: Evaluation as a Way Forward; III: Evaluation of Large-Scale Development Projects; 7 Accreditation, Accountability and Assessment: Addressing Multiple Agendas; 8 An Institutional Programme: A National Model for Evaluation?; 9 Evaluation Matters in a National, Funded Academic Development Project; 10 Impact Evaluation and its Implications; 11 Evaluation of Academic Development: Looking to the Future; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can Academic Developers provide evidence of the effectiveness and 'added value' of their work to the key stakeholders within their institutions? Written for Academic Developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development is a professional guide that shares best practice advice and provides developers with useful frameworks for effective evaluation and monitoring of their work. Through case studies and up-to-date examples from experts in the field, this colle
• Titolo autorizzato: Evaluating the effectiveness of academic development
• ISBN: 1-136-94475-3; 1-136-94476-1; 1-282-91323-9; 9786612913235; 0-203-84793-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808946403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II