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Evaluating for Success: An Evaluation Guide for Schools and Districts

 
 
Product Description  

  
An evaluation guide for schools and districts engaged in reform
Authors  Louis F. Cicchinelli & Zoe Barley
Target Audience  Administrators
Ways to Use this Product  As a resource for helping districts and schools to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives and changes.
Key Ideas  
This guide provides practical information, tips, and tools, which serve as a resource for novice and expert evaluators alike.

This publication is organized around a five-stage evaluation process.

  1. Planning the evaluation

  2. Designing the evaluation

  3. Conducting the evaluation

  4. Reporting the findings

  5. Encouraging use of the findings


 
After reading this guide, users should be better able to

  • plan a focused, practical school reform evaluation;

  • develop a detailed evaluation plan;

  • conduct an evaluation of school reform implementation and impact;

  • report key findings in formats useful to major audiences; and

  • encourage use of evaluation findings for program improvement.
How to Get this Product  View/Download the PDF
APA Citation  Cicchinelli, L. F., & Barley, Z. (1999). Evaluating for success: An evaluation guide for schools and districts. Aurora, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
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