Evaluating NESTA's Support for Science Learning

Autor/in	Davies, Dan
Titel	Evaluating NESTA's Support for Science Learning
Quelle	In: Evaluation and Research in Education, 20 (2007) 1, S.3-31 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0790
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Program Evaluation; Institutional Mission; Endowment Funds; Research Reports; Foreign Countries; Multitrait Multimethod Techniques; Science Education; International Programs; Institutional Research; Institutional Characteristics; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Stiftungsvermögen; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Ausland; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Institutionelle Forschung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper reports on a commissioned research project to evaluate the impact of support (mainly funding) given by the UK Government's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to various projects under the general heading of "science learning" over a four-year period (2000-2004). Findings emerging from the study indicate that NESTA is an imaginative and risk-taking project funder, supporting innovative approaches to science education, typically involving special events or producing web-based resources or other e-learning outcomes, characteristically with strong environmental, technological or creative themes. However, the article also reports on methodological and theoretical issues emerging from a medium-scale, largely retrospective evaluation, such as the pros and cons of a "multi-method" approach (Saxe & Fine, 1979; Bennet, 2003); the need to construct a methodology that would be acceptable to the commissioning body, and the extent to which findings can be set within "theories of change" frameworks proposed by Fullan (2001) and Harlen and Kinder (1997). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10