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INVITATIONAL PRACTICUM IN METAEVALUATION Session 6, 10/13/11 (Dan). India’s Education Capacity Building Program & its evaluation DLS metaevaluation Chris Coryn’s comments re. the 2 metaevaluation reports, employment of JC Standards, uses of the metaevaluations , and next steps
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INVITATIONAL PRACTICUM IN METAEVALUATIONSession 6, 10/13/11 (Dan) India’s Education Capacity Building Program & its evaluation DLS metaevaluation Chris Coryn’scomments re. the 2 metaevaluation reports, employment of JC Standards, uses of the metaevaluations, and next steps DLS employed checklist and contents of his metaevaluation report Chris Coryn’sreflections on checklist-based metaevaluation and the more general approach by Owens DLS comment on applying checklists Student updates on finding a metaevaluation report Sample questions for next week’s test
India’s Education Capacity-building Program(Chris) • Overview of the program • Roles of Corynand Cousins • Financing of the reform and their evaluations • Evaluation arrangements • Origin of the metaevaluation • Rationale for using the Joint Committee Standards? • Selection of 3 metaevaluators • Involvement of Cambridge Education Ltd. • Charge to the metaevaluators
DLS Orientation to the Metaevaluation Assignment(Dan) • Each metaevaluator should proceed independently • Tailoring of a checklist to the assignment • Issue re. draft status of new JC Standards • Obtaining and reviewing materials • Prohibition against interviewing the evaluators • Production of 4 reports • Meeting with some of the Indian evaluators • Next steps: summative metaevaluations
External Consultant’s Perspective on the Process(Chris) • Review of the Owens report • Resignation of the India-based metaevaluator • Contrast of the Owens and Stufflebeam reports • Fit of the JC Standards to the Indian context • Progress of the evaluation work in India • Impact of the India-based evaluations • Impact of the Owens and Stufflebeam reports • Next steps in the evaluations and metaevaluations
Checklists(DLS) • Manual Checklist • Filled in using Microsoft Word • Automated Checklist • Microsoft Access • Excel
REFLECTIONS(Chris) • Checklist-based metaevaluations • General, perceptual approach applied by Owens • Use of automated checklists
STUDENT UPDATES(Dan) • Locating metaevaluation reports • Locating evaluation reports
MID-TERM EXAMINATION(Chris) • Sample test questions • Modified true-false • Multiple choice • Work sample followed by multiple choice • Matching • About 60 items • Reference to distributed test plan