Successive inspections by the government agency OfSTED (Office for Standards in Education) led to a notice of closure being issued by the Secretary of State in 1999. Ian Stronach carried out an evaluation of the inspection process which was used as part of the evidence at the Appeal Tribunal.
Helen Simons' 1998 evaluation of a national innovation in the Republic of Ireland: the shift from an 'apprenticeship' style of nurse education and training to a university diploma concurrent with registration as a nurse.
'Hathaway' is a multimedia case study developed to provide a means for seeing classroom processes in the context of school, system and community issues. Originally published in 1995 to support professional development at Deakin University in Australia, it has now been used by over 1000 students.
Cynthia Cole's 1993 study of the impact of new technologies on families in the rural Midwest. Social dynamics were greatly changed in some families, and especially in the case of the Waxman Family which is described here.
This 1992 case study was an attempt by Jack and Elizabeth Easley to understand a novel approach to teaching mathematics to young children developed in Japan: ideas that they tried to introduce to Elementary teachers in the US through an action research network.
Bob Stake's 1992 case study of a Chicago elementary school: part of a multi-case study of school responses to school improvement initiatives. Later published in Stake's book 'The Art of Case Study Research' (1995)
Bob Stake's 1986 influential demonstration of his own 'responsive model' of evaluation. Unusual in that it was an evaluation of an evaluation - of the 'Cities in Schools' federal programme in the USA.
The 1982 evaluation of bilingual schooling in Boston commissioned by the Ford Foundation against a background of heated nationwide debate about the value and cost of mandated bilingual education.
SAFARI was originally a set of evaluative case studies of four major curriculum projects and the effects of these projects through four school case studies in one UK Local Education Authority, focused on the main curriculum concerns in each school. It also served as a focus for the development of new evaluation practices and led to the publication of the 'SAFARI Papers', some of which are included in this collection.
