Evaluative research: a case study of the Teacher Induction Pilot Schemes project 1 |
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| Abstract: | This paper uses an earlier conceptual framework in order to promote a dialogue between funding agencies and researchers about the problems and limitations of evaluating the implementation of a major national project in teacher education concerned with the induction of beginning teachers. Eight propositions highlight the principal issues associated with the evaluation contract, with changes in the evalution task team and policy over time, the research‐design, the need for negotiations, the impact of the research upon the action and the difficulties of drawing unambiguous conclusions. It is argued that policy makers, funding bodies and researchers in both developed and developing countries should recognise them as natural features of such projects and should take account of them in the training of researchers and in the monitoring of projects. |
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