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The TurnAround Toolkit outlines a formative evaluation program for enhancing school and student achievement. Included are pocket summaries for each chapter and an online "toolkit."

Offers precise lessons on how to focus the evaluation, identify tracking strategies, manage instrument development and data collection, analyze information, and interpret findings.

Here are gripping true-life stories of emergency medical response teams who every day face split-second decisions--and one false move can mean the difference between life and death.

The heart of the Program Evaluation Kit, this volume provides a broad overview of evaluation planning and a practical guide to designing and managing programs. Learn how the field of evaluation has changed over the last ten years. This volume is concise, informative, and clearly written. Major attention is given to: establishing an evaluation's parameters; the how-to's of formative and summative evaluation; and the power of evaluation studies that combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Also covered are recently developed evaluation standards; and a new emphasis on ongoing program monitoring in evaluation. The Evaluator's Handbook also covers: concerns, user needs, and other socio-political factors that influence the utility of an evaluation. Strategies for maximizing utility are included throughout the evaluation planning, implementation, and reporting process.

This volume examines the work of five figurative artists working in Britain in the 1950s: they are Joan Eardley (19211963), Sheila Fell (19311979), Eva Frankfurther (19301959), Josef Herman (19112000) and LS Lowry (18871976). Each of them established a strong identification with the place in which they chose to live and work and that represented, for a significant part of their careers, the primary focus of their practice. Each associated themselves with a specific place: Eardley, the Gorbals in Glasgow; Fell, the mining community and landscape of her native Aspatria, Cumbria; Frankfurther, Londons East End and its multi-cultural working-class communities; Herman, Ystradgynlais in South Wales with its indigenous mining community; and Lowry, his hometown of Manchester with its industrial, densely populated cityscape. Each produced a concentrated and coherent body of work imbued with this strong sense or spirit of place and the largely working-class people associated with it, although Eardley and especially Fell also produced powerful landscapes. This volume links these five seemingly disparate artists by uncovering a network of relationships, both personal and professional, and their shared exploration of particular artistic concerns and motifs.