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Levels of Evaluation on Eisenhower Project

3 Levels of Evaluation

presented by Howard Levine

1. Program Level - (Professional Judgment/Clinical Model)
   • Major Question: How well does the program operate?
   • Criteria: Need, Audience, Resources, Process, Products
   • Techniques: Site Visits/Document Review/Participant Interviews

2. Teacher - Participant Level - (Primary Audience Model)
   • Major Question: Are we creating better teachers?
   • Criteria: Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Skills, Attitude
   • Techniques: Surveys/Focus Groups/ Class room Observation/Pre-post
   • Instruments/Case Studies

3. Student Level - (Secondary Audience Model)
   • Major Question: Is Student Performance Improving?
   • Criteria: Attitudinal Measures, Course Enrollments, Standardized Test Scores
   • Techniques: Surveys/Focus Groups/ Class room Observation/Pre-post
   • Instruments/Case Studies/Portfolios

Putting it all together: Quasi-experimental design needed to link
student performance with teacher performance and program performance
-- Robust Correlation rather than Causation

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge...
And not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing...
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught...
As that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains...
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge...
It is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke