This guide shows how school personnel can use evaluation to assess programme appropriateness, effectiveness, quality and improvement of special education programmes.
The authors suggest practical ways in which evaluation can benefit teacher and student. They illustrate: how to document needs and support requests for resources; how to reveal programme strengths and weaknesses and make informed, effective decisions on the need for change; how to compare promising programme alternatives by pre-testing and collecting data on a sample basis and determining effectiveness before widespread implementation; and how to diagnose aspects of programmes that must be improved to meet legal or external requirements. Non-technical terminology is used throughout.
If the only reason you evaluate your special education programs is to satisfy external, legally mandated requirements, you′re not reaping the full benefit of your efforts. This book shows how evaluation information helps you: *Document needs and support requests for resources (and improve your chances for getting them!) *Reveal program strengths and weaknesses and make informed, effective decisions on changes needed (or not needed) *Compare promising program alternatives by pretesting and collecting data on a limited basis and determining effectiveness before widespread implementation *Diagnose aspects of programs that must be improved to pass a mandated external review This book is part of a seven-volume series for evaluating programs and services in today′s K-12 schools. The "master plan" for this series is found in Evaluating School Programs: An Educator′s Guide by James R. Sanders. It describes the steps involved in conducting the evaluation, including ways to focus the evaluation, identify specific evaluation questions, and collect, organize, analyze, and report the information. All volumes in the series, including this one, are designed to be mutually complementary and used in conjunction with Evaluating School Programs.
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