Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: EWING, J. (ed.) (1985) Reading and the New Technologies MILLER, J. (ed.) (1984) Eccentric Propositions: essays on literature and the curriculum EVANS, MARTHA M. (1982) Dyslexia: an annotated bibliography BRITTON, B.K. and BLACK, J.B. (eds) (1985) Understanding Expository Text: a theoretical and practical handbook TOPPING, K. and WOLFENDALE, s. (eds) (1985) Parental Involvement in Children's Reading D.R. ROGERS and J.A. SLOBODA (eds) (1983) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skiffs     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Pressley, M., Reading instruction that works: The case for balanced teaching Vincent, D., The rise of mass literacy: reading and writing in Modern Europe Bishop, D.V.M. and Leonard, L.B., Speech and language impairments in children Funnell, Elaine (Ed.), Case studies in the neuropsychology of reading     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Myra Barrs and Valerie Cork, The Reader in The Writer: the Links between the Study of Literature and Writing Development at Key Stage 2 Naz Rassool, Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information Len Unsworth, Changing Multiliteracies Across the Curriculum: Changing Contexts of Text and Image in Classroom Practice Peter Hunt and Millicent Lenz, Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction     

Book reviews

This article reviews the processes, issues and dilemmas involved in evaluation research undertaken in the context of changing and evolving government policy in education. The article is grounded in an evaluation of the National Partnership Project (NPP), the team conducted on behalf of England's Teacher Training Agency (TTA) in 2004–2005. It will not present a critique of partnership in England, but will draw on perspectives of partnership to provide some background information to the project. It will also discuss the processes of evaluation research in the context of frameworks from recent and relevant research and will raise issues for future commissioned evaluation research to address.