Stages of Implementation | Factors That Effect Implementation | Evaluation of Instructional Improvement Efforts | Formative and Summative Program Evaluation | Teacher Empowerment |
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What is readiness?
This is the first stage of implementation.
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What are external factors?
Parents, community, district office, and other schools in the district are considered this.
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What is educational evaluation?
This area in education has gone through dramatic expansions in knowledge, techniques, and attention.
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What is formative evaluation?
This is a type of program that is intended to improve a program.
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What is empowerment evaluation?
This is use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-discrimination.
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What is cultural readiness?
This type of readiness requires the school to have open communication, trust, and collaboration.
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What are teachers?
These are people who are considered important and need to have a clear understanding of innovation for their students.
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What are teachers?
It makes sense for these individuals to be involved in instructional program evaluation.
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What is summative evaluation?
These are results in definite judgement about the value of a program.
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What is school culture?
Empowerment evaluation seeks to improve the program being evaluated while also improving this.
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What is political readiness?
This type of readiness is present when the parents, the community, and the district support innovation.
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What is support?
Early on, teachers benefit from this through modeling, workshops, or demonstration lessons.
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What is a judgement?
This is the act of evaluating.
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What is summative evaluation?
This type of evaluation is the basis for whether a program will continue, undergo major revisions, or be terminated.
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What is future program evaluations?
The final purpose of empowerment evaluation is to build both individual and school capacity to carry out this.
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What is initiation?
This stage includes initial skill training.
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What is fidelity?
This concept means that innovation is implemented as designed.
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What is cardiac method?
This is a way in which a judgement is made that leads to the "heart" knowing the program was a success.
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What is formative?
The best type of these assessments are ongoing, enabling periodic adjustments to the program.
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What are teachers?
These individuals need moral support to gain confidence in performing evaluations.
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What is full operation?
At this stage, the innovation has become standard practice
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What is flexibility?
This is what the desire of fidelity needs in order to be tempered with to support structures provided during implementation.
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What is evaluating?
This is what we must make a commitment to when seeking instructional change.
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What is summative?
A number of key decisions must be made in this type of program evaluation.
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What are teacher-evaluators?
These individuals hold themselves accountable to all of the school's stakeholders on the quality of their evaluation, plan, and intervention.
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