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Evaluating Evaluators

An Evaluation of Education in Germany

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  1. Susan Harris-Huemmert
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  • Investigating the Evaluation of Higher Education in Germany

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-19
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  2. Introduction

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 21-27

  3. Evaluation and quality in German higher education

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 29-62

  4. Theory and Methods

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 63-84

  5. The Chronology of the Evaluation

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 85-158

  6. The roles of individuals and their work ethics

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 159-190

  7. Establishing evaluation criteria: reaching consensus on the notion of quality in German Educational Science

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 191-211

  8. Organisational issues and problems: self-concept of evaluators and learning processes

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 213-243

  9. Review of the evaluation, critical discussion, and conclusions

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 245-260

  10. Developments in German HE quality assurance since 2004

    • Susan Harris-Huemmert
    Pages 261-266

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-300
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About this book

How do evaluators of higher education go about their work? How are groups of evaluators put together? How do they reach consensus on the criteria of quality in the discipline or degree programme under examination? What problems do evaluators encounter and how do they resolve them? Susan Harris-Huemmert investigates these questions in this detailed case study of an evaluation commission that inspected education departments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg (universities and teacher-training colleges) during 2003/2004. This work takes up not only topics germane to evaluators of higher education, but also illustrates the politics and contextual issues surrounding the discipline of education in Germany during the first decade of the 21st century.

The book will be of interest to education researchers, students of evaluation, peer reviewers and those working in higher education quality assurance.

About the author

Dr. Susan Harris-Huemmert completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford (New College) in 2009.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluating Evaluators

  • Book Subtitle: An Evaluation of Education in Germany

  • Authors: Susan Harris-Huemmert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92771-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17783-0Published: 13 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-92771-8Published: 11 January 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 300

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Education, general

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