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Question 1: What terms/ideas/issues come to mind when you hear the term evaluation or assessment? Think/pair/share Common theme: complication Question 2: imagine a different educational reality. Dont worry about practicalities at this point if we are going to *properly evaluate schools/students/programs, what should our theory and practice entail? What terms/ideas/issues should be associated with the term evaluation? An ideal or model (student) An on-going learner Flourishing/thriving in all different always (not just 2nd directed learning) Change in cognitive development Initiative (less on the teacher, but students take on more) Autonomy of the learner Student-relationship (connectedness between all members) Respect for learning (feedback, dialogue) Energy (enjoyment) A common goal Different options for showing content is learned Mastery of some kind but not just discursive understandings
A definition: Evaluation is a systematic process of determining the merit or worth of an object (joint committee, 1994) Our object is, in this case, an educational program.