Norway; Reform 97; Public-sector “reform”; Program evaluation; Curriculum evaluation.
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Norway
Abstract
In 1997 Norway initiated a sweeping reform of the compulsory education system entitled Reform 97. In 2001 the coordinating committee for the national evaluation of Reform 97sponsored a conference to facilitate to discuss the on-going projects evaluating the reform along with presentations focused on evaluation capacity-building for the Norwegian research community. This chapter, drawn from the subsequent volume, seeks to summarize the issues that lurk in the tasks surrounding the idea of an empirical evaluation of a national educational reform: there are many stakeholders involved; many problems are addressed. Although the idea of a national “reform” gives an impression of a single, authoritatively-sponsored and centrally-directed undertaking, the chapter discusses the ambiguities and tensions around such a conception of public sector “reform” and its consequences for projects evaluating national educational reforms
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