Re: theory-based evaluations

From: Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky@home.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 15:25:50 PDT


Mike, this may be off-target, but according to the author profiles in Cope
and Kalantzis's edited collection "Multiliteracies," Sarah Michaels at
Clark U. is involved with "research and development in an experimental
after-school science program, The Investigators Club, for inner-city middle
school students." It doesn't say anything about assessment but it's one lead.
At 01:59 PM 8/15/01 -0700, you wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have been reading the literature on community-based intervention
>programs where true and even quasi-experimental evaluation designs are
>impractical to implement (e.g, the kinds of environments I work in!). I
>have come across a couple of papers on what is called "theory-based
>design" and am trotting off the to library to try to get my hands on a few
>of the very few papers I have located on this topic.
>
> Does anyone out there in xmca-land have experience with this mode
>of research and/or pointers to examples?
>
> Mike



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