Enhancing the Quality and Use of Educational Evaluation
2016 Special Issue of the Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly (CERQ)
In the context of global competitiveness, the role of evaluation in educational settings has been refocused. On the one hand, evaluation contributes to our understanding about the efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity either of institution, personnel, program, or policy. On the other hand, it provides feedbacks for improvement and evidences for decision-making to assure educational quality among different levels of schools/institutions. However, the proper use of evaluation in the fields remains a concern and the design of evaluation also needs to be optimized. We still have much to learn from innovative theories and exemplary practice to enhance the quality and use of evaluation.
This special issue is to provide a forum for discussing current issues that reflect on the high quality practices, the state-of-the-art methodologies and up-to-date theories of institutional, personnel, program, and policy evaluation. A range of topics are suggested as follows:
1. The problems and solutions of educational evaluation today
2. Factors considered in designing a sound educational evaluation system
3. The concepts and practices of institutional, personnel, program and policy evaluation
4. The valid and reliable understanding of quality
5. The proper methodologies of evaluation
6. The role of evaluators and stakeholders related to evaluation
7. Best practices of outcome-based evaluation
8. Best practices of data-based decision making
9. Best practices of institutional research
10. Best practices of quality assurance
11. The proper use of educational evaluation today
12. A way of maximizing the proper use of evaluation
Full paper submissions are due by April 30, 2016. The manuscript can be submitted in Chinese or English. The full manuscripts will be prepared in accordance with CERQ's Guidelines for Authors (please visit journal website: http://140.122.127.190/contemporary/en ) and subject to double-blind review based on the standard CERQ manuscript review criteria as well as relevance to the special issue. Full paper submissions must be done via online submission system (http://ojs.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/index.php/cerecerq/index). The results will be made available to authors on or before July 30, 2016, and they will have to make revisions in light of the reviewers’ feedback in 14 days. Accepted papers will be published in the December 2016 special issue of CERQ. For more information, please contact the Guest Editors at cerecerq@gmail.com
Important Dates
Full paper submission deadline: April 30, 2016
Notification of first decision: July 30, 2016
Notification of final decision: September 30, 2016
Guest Editors
Hui-Ling Wendy Pan, Ph.D., Tamkang University, Taiwan
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang, Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Managing Editors
Shu-Huei Cheng, Ph.D., National Taiwan Normal University
Yi-Fang Lee, Ph.D., National Taiwan Normal University
