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Evaluating and Assessing Professional Development (What is the evaluation…
Evaluating and Assessing Professional Development
Costs of PD
For what?
Instructional coaches
Registration fees
Materials
Substitutes
$4,000 per teacher
$5-12 billion/year
Measurement of success = CHANGE
Student achievement
Implementation of new teaching strategies
Subject matter standards
Technology integration
Team building
How to determine lasting change?
How does the leader know when transfer of a new practice has occurred?
How does the leader know whether or not student achievement has increased?
Greater Accountability
Evaluation Process
Systematic
Purposeful
Program goals
Duration of PD
Studying, reviewing, and analyzing data
Judges worth or merit of a program
Decides course of action
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Levels of implementation
Change in beliefs and practices
Three questions...
What information to collect
How to gather it
How to use it
Staff Development Plan
Integrity, useful, valuable
Clearly defined goals and objectives
Theory for change
Clear
Logical
Collects relevant performance data
Produces results for students
Evaluation
Systematic collection of information to be used in decision making.
What is evaluated?
The delivery of PD
What educators learn
Whether and how educators apply learning
Whether and how students benefit
What is the evaluation for?
Needs assessments
Accreditation
Formative
Summative
Cost/benefit analysis
Goal-based
Process
Outcomes
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Elements of Change
A Process
Several Years
Not a single event
Accomplished by individuals
Individual efforts
Personal Experience
Unique to needs
Incremental
In terms of personal practice
Classrooms
Students
Planning/
Time
Focused on people
Not materials