Resource Materials Prepared Prior to 2008

Books

Evaluative Inquiry: Using Evaluation to Promote Student Success

Beverly A. Parsons

Improve learning for all students in all environments!

Evaluative Inquiry advances the capacity of teachers and prinicpals to provide more effective learning for all students in every type of academic environment. In this jargon-free book Parsons delivers a systematic evaluation process for gathering, analyzing, and identifying what changes are needed in schools today for productive learning.

Parsons provides the guidance, step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-use forms to help educators and schools leaders understand and implement this hands-on, in-depth evaluation process. Evaluative Inquiry can help you discover if your changes are making a difference and whether they enhance the successes of students and teachers alike.

Three types of evaluative inquiry are explored in this book:

• Quality – Does the initiative promote high-quality learning?
• Sustainability – Can the initiative be sustained?
• Cultivation – Can the initiative be expanded and nurtured?

This unique book puts the evaluative process into the hands of principals, teachers, administrators, board members, foundations, and community members. It contains a number of real life case examples to clearly demonstrate how the process actually works and outlines the tangible, successful results you can expect to realize in your own school or district.

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You can order "Evaluative Inquiry" either through Corwin Press or Amazon.

2002
DIA20-0-7619-7814-3 (Paper) $29.95
DIA20-0-7619-7814-5 (Library Edition) $65.95

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"Quality Books for preK-12 Educators"
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Danforth Foundation Policymakers Program

From 1992 - 2002, InSites was involved in the design, evaluation, and implementation of the Danforth Foundation's Policymakers Program. A five-year and ten-year report of the program may be downloaded below. Within the second volume of the five year report are two sections prepared by InSites. Section E contains a process for analyzing state-level systems change in education and human services. Section F describes a process for using a systems change approach to building communities. These sections may be downloaded below.

The Policymaker's Program: The First Five Years:
Volume I – Statewide Strategies for Improving the Well-Being of Children and Families (pdf)

The Policymaker's Program: The First Five Years:
Volume II – Statewide Strategies for Improving the Well-Being of Children and Families - Implementationn Tools (pdf)

Section E: Analysis of State-Level Systems Change in Education and Human Services (pdf)
Section F: Using a Systems Change Apprach to Building Communities (pdf)

Positive Results for Children, Youth, and Families: ATen-Year Initiative in State/Local Collaboration that
Brings Together Education and Human Services (pdf)