Assessing and evaluating adult learning in career and technical education

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wang, Victor C. X.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Adult learning > Textbooks. > Evaluation; Adult education > Textbooks. > Evaluation; Technical education > Textbooks. > Evaluation; Transformative learning; New perspectives of andragogy; Instructional design and evaluation; Evaluation models for evaluating educational programs; Formative and summative evaluation; Assessing adult learning and learning styles; Effectiveness of instruction; Adult learning in online courses; Using assessment to promote critical thinking; Self-evaluation
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"This book advances a framework, a process and meaningful approaches for assessing and evaluating adult learning in career and technical education (CTE)"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Working toward self-evaluation / Patricia Cranton
• 2. Transformative learning and ancient Asian educational perspectives / Victor Wang, Kathleen King
• 3. Philosopher or Philistine? / Kerry Lee
• 4. A productive decade of andragogy's history and philosophy / John A. Henschke
• 5. New perspectives of andragogy in relation to the use of technology / Lesley Farmer
• 6. Learning contracts as part of instructional design and evaluation / Mary Ware
• 7. Evaluation models for evaluating educational programs / Ernest W. Brewer
• 8. Formative and summative evaluation in the assessment of adult learning / James Martin, Royce Ann Collins
• 9. Assessing adult learning and learning styles / E. Isaac
• 10. Using assessment to promote critical thinking and problem solving skills in adults / Bridget Arend
• 11. Evaluating the effectiveness of instruction using principles of adult learning / Jim Berger
• 12. Assessing adult learning in online courses / Lesley Farmer, Judith Parker.