Deliberative Democratic Evaluation: Successes and Limitations of an Evaluation of School Choice
- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Teachers College Record: the Voice of Scholarship in Education
- Vol. 107 (10), 2275-2298
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9620.2005.00592.x
Abstract
This article briefly characterizes a deliberative democratic approach to program evaluation, recounts its application to the evaluation of school choice policy in the Boulder Valley School District, and describes the results and recommendations of the evaluation. It then assesses the evaluation in terms of its role in stimulating policy change and how it fits with the requirements of the deliberative democratic ideal. It concludes with an assessment of the deliberative democratic approach itself in light of the Boulder experience.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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