Our school staff is planning a self evaluation of a program at our school. What guidelines should we follow in planning and conducting our self evaluation?
How can I approach a decision about whether or not a school's teacher evaluation policies and procedures do what they purport to do? How can we know that our teacher evaluation program is aligned to our goals for teachers' improvement?
MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
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Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1988). The
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Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1994). The
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Scriven, M. (1969). An introduction to meta-evaluation. Educational
Product Report, 2 (5), 36-38.
Scriven, M. (1991). Evaluation thesaurus (4th ed.). Newbury Park, CA:
Sage Publications.
[N.B. In the above work, see entries for Meta-Evaluation, Key Evaluation
Checklist and GAO Checklist.]
Stufflebeam, D. L. (1976). Meta-evaluation. Kalamazoo, MI: The
Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University.
Stufflebeam, D. L. (1981). Meta-evaluation: concepts, standards and uses.
In R. A. Berk (Ed.), Educational evaluation methodology: the state of the art.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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