Ray C Rist
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83704 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ray C Rist |
| PRENOMES | Ray C |
| SOBRENOME | Rist |
| ASSINATURA | RIST R C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Can Governments Learn
Policy Studies
The sixth edition of this annual collection of the year's best work in policy studies. Contributions in this volume reflect the increased emphasis on budget conscious and carefully targeted social programmes. Exemplifying a range of analytic and methodological strategies, this edition features studies from Australia, the United States, West Germany, and Great Britain.
Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation
Studies Are Not Enough
The authors contend that developments in the public and not-for-profit sectors over the last decade or so have profound implications for the profession of evaluation, implications that are not being adequately addressed. They argue that evaluation needs to transform itself if it wishes to play a significant role in the management of organizations in these sectors. Beyond traditional evaluation studies, evaluators working in public and not-for-pro…
How Will We Know the Millennium Development Goal Results When We See Them
Results based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a powerful public management tool to help policy makers track progress and demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of a given policy, program, or project. In the context of MDG's having results based M&E system is important to assess whether governments are effectively using resources and making appropriate policy choices to achieve progress towards MDG achievement. Developing countries need as good a…
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons
Building a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system
There are growing pressures in countries throughout the world to improve the performance of their public sectors. One strategy now being employed in both developed and developing countries is to design and construct performance-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems so as to be able to track the results produced (or not) by governments. This paper describes a 10-step approach to the design and construction of such M&E systems that is curre…
HER Classic Reprint - Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
In 1970 the Harvard Educational Review published an article by Ray Rist that described how, for the one class of children he observed, their public school not only mirrored the class system of the larger society but also actively contributed to maintaining it. Now, thirty years later, the Editorial Board of the Harvard Educational Review has decided to reprint this article as part of the HER Classics Series. We hope that by reacquainting readers …
Books in review
Color, class, and the realities of inequality
Program Evaluation and the Management of Government
Management Accountability
Auditing and Evaluation are two strategies which governments may use to ascertain if existing policies and programs are being administered as they ought. They provide critical information by which to determine the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of government action and are the basis for holding accountable those responsible for the government policies and programs. The analysis compares the strengths and weaknesses of auditing and evaluat…
Declining options/increasing needs
Immigrant Labour and Government Policy
Research in the Shadows
I must share immediately that I undertake this critique with considerable trepidation for I have the distinct impression that what I am trying to assess here lives in the shadows.* All will not be as it may appear. To wit, when I indicate my concerns about multiple methodological shortcomings in the piece, I anticipate hearing back that the focus is not on data produced from a methodological straightjacket, but on that which emerges from inferenc…
Research in the Shadows
Do Teachers Count in the Lives of Children
Groups in Contact
A Major Step Forward in Desegregation Research
Transmitting the Craft of Qualitative Research
Confronting Youth Unemployment in the 1980's
Bilingual education
Labeling the learning disabled child
The labeling of a child as “learning disabled” is a social event. The context within which this label is given is little understood, yet it does have an impact on the justification and process by which the label is given. The ecology of the labeling process and the implications for educational practice are examined
Beyond the Quantitative Cul‐de‐sac
There is a pressing need in the United States to develop effective programs that address youth unemployment and the transition from school to work. Based on work at 47 sites in 31 states, this paper reports on a policy evaluation strategy that heavily relied on qualitative research. On‐site observers at each of these sites focused on key issues of program implementation, linkages to other agencies and organizations serving youth, and on the effec…
Playing on the margin
Blitzkrieg Ethnography
In retrospect, it seems rather inevitable. What had been a quiet and perhaps peripheral aspect of educational research has moved rapidly to center stage. Ethnographic research on American education has heretofore been the activity of a small band of researchers, overwhelmingly trained in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. But at present, it is finding widespread application among researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. And …
Gatekeepers and the Social Control of Social Research
Increasing concern has been expressed over the way sponsorship of research by various governmental agencies and private foundations has influenced the "objectivity " of scientific investigations. Actual manifestations of the social control of research can be studied through an analysis of the role of the "gatekeeper. " Gatekeeping influences the research endeavor in a number of ways: by limiting conditions of entry, by defining the problem area o…
The guestworkers of Germany
On the Relations Among Educational Research Paradigms
Polity, Politics, and Social Research
Although both presidential and con-gressional commissions have been a part of the American political scene for some decades, only in recent years have both their function and frequency increased. Richard Nixon, for exam-ple, during his first two years in office, appointed more than 50 commissions ranging from those concerned with federal statistics and oil import quotas to those concerned with campus unrest and drug abuse. As Bell (1966) has sugg…
Guestworkers in Germany
Desegregated Schools
Race, policy, and schooling
Building a performance-based monitoring and evaluation system
There are growing pressures in countries throughout the world to improve the performance of their public sectors. One strategy now being employed in both developed and developing countries is to design and construct performance-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems so as to be able to track the results produced (or not) by governments. This paper describes a 10-step approach to the design and construction of such M&E systems that is curre…
How Will We Know the Millennium Development Goal Results When We See Them
Results based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a powerful public management tool to help policy makers track progress and demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of a given policy, program, or project. In the context of MDG's having results based M&E system is important to assess whether governments are effectively using resources and making appropriate policy choices to achieve progress towards MDG achievement. Developing countries need as good a…
On the Utility of Ethnographic Research for the Policy Process
Federal Funding and Social Science Research
A profound shift has occurred in the manner by which the federal government now distributes funds for policy related research in the social sciences. Whereas in the 1960s, the prime mechanism for funding research was through the grant, the 1970s has seen a shift to the use of the contract. The implications of this shift are important, not only for who will conduct the research, but the very nature and form of that research itself. The university …
Ethnographic Techniques and the Study of an Urban School
Bilingual education
On the Limits of Social Science Evidence
As courts increasingly make de facto public policy, what is the appropriate role for the social scientist
Color, class, and the realities of inequality
Management Accountability
Auditing and Evaluation are two strategies which governments may use to ascertain if existing policies and programs are being administered as they ought. They provide critical information by which to determine the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of government action and are the basis for holding accountable those responsible for the government policies and programs. The analysis compares the strengths and weaknesses of auditing and evaluat…
Do Teachers Count in the Lives of Children
Transmitting the Craft of Qualitative Research
Beyond the Quantitative Cul‐de‐sac
There is a pressing need in the United States to develop effective programs that address youth unemployment and the transition from school to work. Based on work at 47 sites in 31 states, this paper reports on a policy evaluation strategy that heavily relied on qualitative research. On‐site observers at each of these sites focused on key issues of program implementation, linkages to other agencies and organizations serving youth, and on the effec…
Confronting youth unemployment in the 1980s
Imperatives of integration
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
Many studies have shown that academic achievement is highly correlated with social class. Few, however, have attempted to explain exactly how the school helps to reinforce the class structure of the society. In this article Dr. Rist reports the results of an observational study of one class of ghetto children during their kindergarten,first- and second-grade years. He shows how the kindergarten teacher placed the children in reading groups which …
Black Staff, Black Studies, and White Universities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRay C. RistRay C. Rist is assistant professor of sociology at Tortland State University. He wishes to acknowledge the substantive comments of David B. Carpenter on an earlier draft of this paper
The Milieu of a Ghetto School as a Precipitator of Educational Failure
Social Distance and Social Inequality in a Ghetto Kindergarten Classroom
Planned Incapacitation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRay C. RistRay C. Rist is an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University
Inequality
Polity, Politics, and Social Research
Although both presidential and con-gressional commissions have been a part of the American political scene for some decades, only in recent years have both their function and frequency increased. Richard Nixon, for exam-ple, during his first two years in office, appointed more than 50 commissions ranging from those concerned with federal statistics and oil import quotas to those concerned with campus unrest and drug abuse. As Bell (1966) has sugg…
Race, policy, and schooling
The Urban School
Schools and Inequality
Present educational finance policies can be construed to be in violation of the equal Protection Clause of the United states Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Assisted by the National Urban Coalition, the authors of this book have compiled a great deal of information and analysis on school services in the state of Michigan--information which may typify such services throughout the country. Their research was conducted initially to serve as evi…
Ethnographic Techniques and the Study of an Urban School
Cheap thrills
The Pornography Controversy
Education and social policy in the 1970s
Federal Funding and Social Science Research
A profound shift has occurred in the manner by which the federal government now distributes funds for policy related research in the social sciences. Whereas in the 1960s, the prime mechanism for funding research was through the grant, the 1970s has seen a shift to the use of the contract. The implications of this shift are important, not only for who will conduct the research, but the very nature and form of that research itself. The university …
Gatekeepers and the Social Control of Social Research
Increasing concern has been expressed over the way sponsorship of research by various governmental agencies and private foundations has influenced the "objectivity " of scientific investigations. Actual manifestations of the social control of research can be studied through an analysis of the role of the "gatekeeper. " Gatekeeping influences the research endeavor in a number of ways: by limiting conditions of entry, by defining the problem area o…
The Unequal Elites
Imperatives of integration
On the Relations Among Educational Research Paradigms
Letters from readers
The Courts, Social Science, and School Desegregation
The Invisible Children
On the Limits of Social Science Evidence
As courts increasingly make de facto public policy, what is the appropriate role for the social scientist
The Pornography Controversy
Some theoretical concerns: Rist, R. C. Pornography as a social problem. Kaplan, A. Obscenity as an esthetic category.--Pornography and dilemmas of law: Berns, W. Beyond the (garbage) pale or, Democracy, censorship, and the arts. Legislative recommendations: report of the Committee on Obscenity and Pornography. Gagnon, J. H. and Simon, W. Pornography: raging menace or paper tiger? Warren, E., Jr. Obscenity laws: a shift to reality.--Pornography an…
The Invisible Children
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