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Evaluation and Education at Quarter Centuryreviewed by Peter H. Rossi - 1993 Title: Evaluation and Education at Quarter Century Author(s): Milbrey W. McLaughlin, D. C. Phillips Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0226601625, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com Actually education has been evaluated for
more than twenty-five years. Educational evaluation has no
identifiable birth-year that can be used to calculate its age.
However, the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrated in this volume is
that of the passage of the Elementary and Secondary School Act of
1965, certainly a milestone in evaluation history worth noting
because that act marked the beginning of a federal commitment to
assessing educational programs (and other social programs) that has
continued, with ups and downs, ever since. Acting on behalf of the
National Society for the Evaluation of Education, the two editors
corralled a set of first-rate authors, most of whom had written
important statements at the beginning of the surge of evaluations
that followed the passage of the 1965 act. The editors asked each
to review what they had written and to comment on how they would
change things were they to rewrite those early contributions today.
The end result is a set of excellent essays, fascinating for what
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