Authors: Patrick J. McEwan, Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
ISBN-13: 9780761977087, ISBN-10: 0761977082
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Elaine K. McEwan is a partner and educational consultant with The McEwan-Adkins Group, offering workshops in instructional leadership, team building, and raising reading achievement. A former teacher, librarian, principal, and assistant superintendent for instruction in a suburban Chicago school district, McEwan is the author of more than thirty-five books for parents and educators. Her Corwin Press titles include Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools: Five Simple-to-Follow Strategies for Principals, Second Edition (2006), Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers: Using Cognitive Research to Boost K-8 Achievement (2004), Ten Traits of Highly Effective Principals: From Good to Great Performance (2003), Making Sense of Research: What's Good, What's Not, and How to Tell the Difference (2003), Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership, Second Edition (2003), Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall through the Cracks (2002), and Ten Traits of Highly Effective Teachers: How to Hire, Mentor, and Coach Successful Teachers (2001).
McEwan was honored by the Illinois Principals Association as an outstanding instructional leader, by the Illinois State Board of Education with an Award of Excellence in the Those Who Excel Program, and by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as the National Distinguished Principal from Illinois for 1991. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Wheaton College and advanced degrees in library science (MA) and educational administration (EdD) from Northern Illinois University.
This book is for practitioners at all levels, from teachers making site-specific decisions to administrators making schoolwide and policy decisions.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
About the Authors | ||
1 | Asking the Right Questions | 1 |
2 | Behind the Scenes in the World of Education Research | 18 |
3 | The Causal Question: Does It Work? (Part I) | 32 |
4 | The Causal Question: Does It Work? (Part II) | 54 |
5 | The Process Question: How Does It Work? | 75 |
6 | The Cost Question: Is It Worthwhile? | 91 |
7 | The Usability Question: Will It Work for Me? | 110 |
8 | The Evaluation Question: Is It Working for Me? | 129 |
Resource: Bibliographies for Case Studies | 151 | |
References | 157 | |
Index | 170 |