Significant Publications

Freeman, M. & Mathison, S. (2009). Researching Children's Experiences. New York, NY: Guilford Publishers.

Mathison, S. & Ross, E.W. (Eds.) (2008). The Limits of Standards Based Reform and Testing. New York: Teachers College Press.

Mathison, S. & Ross, E.W. (2007). Battleground Schools: An Encyclopedia of Controversial Issues in Education. New York: Greenwood Publishers. (2 volumes)

Mathison, S. (2007). Educational assessment’s role in the neo-liberal, neo-conservative agenda. In D. Gabbard (Ed.) Knowledge and power in the global economy: The effects of school reform in a neoliberal/neoconservative age, 2nd edition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Mathison, S. (2007) What is the difference between evaluation and research? And why do we care? In N. L. Smith & P. Brandon (Eds.). Fundamental issues in evaluation. New York: Guilford Publishers.

Mathison, S. (Ed.) (2004). Encyclopedia of Evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Mathison, S. & Ross, E. W. (2002) The hegemony of accountability in schools and universities. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor. Available at http://www.workplace-gsc.com/

Mathison, S. (1996). Evaluation as a democratizing force in schools. International Journal of Social Education, 11(1).

Mathison, S. (1991). (Ed.). Authority in internal evaluation. A special section of Evaluation and Program Planning, 14(2), 157-198.

Mathison, S. (1988). Why triangulate? Educational Researcher, 17(2), 13-17.