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Professor Nigel Norris

Professor

Email:
n.norris@uea.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0)1603 592620
Fax:
+44 (0)1603 451412
Office location:
EDU 0.11

 

Research
Publications
Supervision

 

Research Interests

Professor Nigel Norris is the Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. His research interests are focused on the history, theory and practice of evaluation, professional education and training and higher education. His main area of specialisation is programme and policy evaluation. He has been involved in a variety of evaluation and research studies including: evaluations of curriculum development and information technology in education; evaluations of police training in the UK and Australia, nurse education, GP training and professional and vocational training policies; curriculum reform in Spain and the reform of the comprehensive school curriculum in Finland; school breakfast clubs in England and the setting up of children's trusts.

Projects

  • 2007 Leader of Evaluation of University Teaching Project
  • 2006 Co-director evaluation of Norfolk Aimhigher
  • 2005 - 06 Evaluation of Combined Assessment Team, Norfolk Children's Services
  • 2004 Member of Project Board for the National Evaluation of Children’s Trusts.
  • 1999 - 01 Joint director (with Professors Ian Harvey and June Thoburn) of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating Breakfast Clubs. The evaluation was funded by the Department of Health.
  • 1997 Co-director of a two year evaluation of Co-tutoring for General Practitioners; funded by the King's Fund and Mercers Foundation.

 

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List of Publications

Books

  • Norris, N. (1977) (Ed) SAFARI: Theory in Practice. Norwich: Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia
  • Norris, N. (1981) Evaluators at Work. Koln: IFAPLAN
  • Norris, N. and Sanger, J. (1984) Inside Information; evaluating a curriculum innovation. Norwich: CARE, University of East Anglia
  • MacDonald, B. Argent, M, Elliott, J. May, N. Miller, & Norris, N. (1987) Police Probationer Training: the final report of the Stage Two Review. London: HMSO
  • MacDonald, B. , Elliott, J. & Norris, N. et al (1990) Studies in Police Training: An Evaluation of Police Recruit Education in New South Wales, Australia. Norwich: CARE, University of East Anglia
  • Norris N. (1990) Understanding Educational Evaluation. London: Kogan Page
  • Norris, N (1995) “Contracts, Control and Evaluation” Journal of Education Policy. 10 (3) 271 – 285
  • House, E., Haug, C. & Norris, N. (1996) “Producing Evaluations in a Large Bureaucracy” Evaluation. 2 (2): 135 - 150
  • Norris, N., Aspland, R., MacDonald, B., Schostak, J. & Zamorski, B. (1996) An Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Curriculum Reform in Finland. Helsinki: National Board of Education.
  • Norris, N. & Phillips. T. (1996) "An Evaluation of the Polytechnic Experiment in Kemi-Tornio and North Karelia" Maljojoki, P. and Kurtakko, K. (Eds) Evaluation Report on the North Karelia and Kemi-Tornio Polytechnics. Joensuu, Finland: Pohjois-Karjalan Ammattikorkeakoulu pp 9 - 20
  • Norris, N (1996) “Professor Hargreaves, the TTA and Evidence-based Practice” Research Intelligence. 57: 2 - 4
  • Norris, N. (1997) “Contract Research” Burgess, B. (Ed). Encyclopaedia of Social Research Methods London: Routledge
  • Norris, N. (1997) “Error Bias and Validity in Qualitative Research” Educational Action Research. 5. (1): 173 - 176
  • Norris, N (1998) “Evaluación, Economía e Indicadores de Rendimiento.” HEURESIS. Revista Electrónica de Investigación Curricular y Educativa, Vol.1, n2, http://www2.uca.es/HEURESIS
  • Norris, N (1998) ‘Curriculum Evaluation Revisited’ Cambridge Journal of Education, 28. (2): 207 – 219
  • Robinson, J. & Norris, N. (2001) ‘Generalisation and Evidence-Based Practice’ Educational Action Research, 9 (2): 303-309
  • Norris, N. (2004) ‘Validity’ Encyclopaedia of Evaluation. London: Sage
  • Norris, N. & Walker R. (2004) ‘Naturalistic Inquiry’ Somekh, B. Lewin C. (Eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences. London: Sage pp 131 – 137
  • Harvey, I.,Shepstone, L.,Swift,L., Reading, R., Mugford, M., Norris, N. Thoburn, J., Robinson, J. (2004) ‘A National Evaluation of School Breakfast Clubs: evidence from a cluster randomised controlled trial and an observational analysis’ Child: Care, Health and Development, 30 (5) 413 - 427
  • Norris, N. (2005) ‘The Politics of Evaluation and the Methodological Imagination’ American Journal of Evaluation, 26 (4): 584 – 586
  • Norris, N. (2007) "Evaluation and Trust" Kushner, S. & Norris, N. (Eds). Dilemmas of Engagement: Evaluation and the New Public Management, Oxford: Elsevier
  • Norris, N. & Kushner, S. (2007) ‘Evaluation and the New Public Management’ Kushner. S. & Norris, N. (Ed). Dilemmas of Engagement: Evaluation and the New Public Management, Oxford: Elsevier

Short Works

  • Norris, N, Logan, T. Kushner & Sanger, J Decision-making in the Secondary Curriculum. (Open University Press 1983)
  • Eide, K & Norris, N (1993) Environmental Education Policies in Finland: a review. A report commissioned by the Ministry of Education and the OECD as part of an international review of environmental education policies. Helsinki: Ministry of Education, National Board of Education

Articles and Contributions to Books

  • Kushner, S. & Norris, N. (1981) "Interpretation, negotiation and validity in naturalistic research" Interchange. 11 pp 26-36.
  • MacDonald, B. & Norris, N. (1981) "Twin political horizons in evaluation fieldwork" Popkewitz, T. & Tabachnick, B. (eds) The Study of Schooling: Field-based Methodologies in Educational Research and Evaluation. Praeger pp. 276-90.
  • MacDonald, B. & Norris, N. (1982) "Political horizons in evaluation fieldwork" Case Study Methods: ER881. (Deakin University) and Case Study in Education: ED826. (University of Queensland Deakin University Press. 1982) A revised version of MacDonald & Norris (1981).
  • Norris, N. , Davies, R. & Beattie, C. (1990) "Evaluating new technology: the case of the Interactive Video in Schools Programme" British Journal of Educational Technology. 21 pp 84-89.
  • Norris, N. & Pettigrew, M. (1991) "Evaluation and Research" Research Intelligence. 40
  • Norris, N. (1991) 'The Trouble With Competence" Cambridge Journal of Education. 21. pp 331 - 341.
  • Norris, N. (1992) "Problems in Police Training" Policing. 8. Autumn pp 210 - 221.
  • Norris, N. (1993) "Evaluation, Economics and Performance Indicators" Elliott, J. (Ed) Reconstructing Teacher Education. Falmer Press.
  • Norris, C. & Norris, N. (1993) "Defining Good Policing" Policing and Society. 3,. pp 205 - 221
  • Norris, N. (1993) "The Art, Theory and Practice of Curriculum Evaluation" The proceedings of the First Sino-British Conference on Curriculum Reform. Institute of Educational Sciences, Shanghai Teachers' University, China.
  • Norris, N. (1994) "Making the Most of Judgement Data" Pettigrew, M & Somekh, B. eds Evaluating Innovation in Environmental Education. Paris: OECD pp 161 - 164
  • Norris, N (1995) "Contracts, Control and Evaluation" Journal of Education Policy. 10 (3) 271 - 285
  • Norris, N (1995) "Koulutusohjelmien Arviointi" Takala, S. (ed) Arviointi ja Koulutuksen Laadun Kehittaminen. Kasvatustieteiden Utukimuslaitos Jyvaskylan Yliopisto. [Norris, N. (1995) ["Evaluation of Educational Programmes" Takala, S. (ed) Evaluation and the Enhancement of the Quality of Education. Jyvaskyla, Finland: Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla]
  • Norris, N (1995) "Contracts, Control and Evaluation" Journal of Education Policy. 10 (3) 271 - 285
  • House, E., Haug, C. & Norris, N. (1996) "Producing Evaluations in a Large Bureaucracy" Evaluation. 2 (2) April. pp 135 - 150
  • Norris, N (1996) "Professor Hargreaves, the TTA and Evidence-based Practice" Research Intelligence. 57. pp 2 - 4
  • Norris, N. (1997) "Error Bias and Validity in Qualitative Research" Educational Action Research. 5. (1) pp 173 - 176
  • Norris, N (1998) "Curriculum Evaluation Revisited" Cambridge Journal of Education 28 (2) 207 - 219
  • Norris, N (1999) "Evaluating Environmental Education Initiatives: issues and strategies" Elliott, J (ed) Environmental Education: on the way to a sustainable future. Report on the Environment and School Initiative International Conference in Linz, Austria 3 to 7 October 1998. Vienna: Austrian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. ISBN 3-85031-037-X.
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Supervision

First Supervisor: Dominik Lukeš John Gordon
Second Supervisor: Barbara Zamorski
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