Session Information
09 SES 04 C, Social Disparities in Education (Part 1)
Paper Session
Contribution
The paper presents a project being carried out by The Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA) in collaboration with a school district in the suburbs of Copenhagen. The project deals with how the patterns that reproduce and produce inequality of opportunity, and especially the link between social background and educational achievement, could be rearranged and broken.
The studies involve researchers working in partnership with practitioners to better understand the processes involved in educational equity and to seek practical solutions within the complex local context.
The project has been presented in the network “Inclusive education” at the ECER conference in Wien 2009 and Helsinki 2010. The first year the paper focused on the evaluation design at an early stage of the project. The second year the paper discussed the perspectives and effect of the intervention one year on. This year the paper presents the accumulated experience of the project with special regard to possibilities and challenges of the evaluation design.
The following questions will be in focus:
- How can a combined development and evaluation design improve equity?
- What achievements can be observed in the school district?
- What are the possibilities and challenges of the design?
- How can the experiences inspire future evaluations in educational contexts?
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
Goldrich, Sue et. al. (2009): Improving equity in and across schools - Bridging the gap be-tween research, practice and experience, symposium paper for ECER Wien, Manchester. Patton, Michael Quinn (2008): Utilization Focused Evaluation, SAGE Publications, United States of America. Pawson, Ray and Tilley, Nick (1997): Realistic Evaluation, SAGE Publications, London.
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