A School-Based Evaluation Model for Accelerating the Education of Students At-Risk.

This paper presents ideas for the development and utilization of a comprehensive evaluation plan for an accelerated school, and contains information about the purposes of a Comprehensive evaluation, the evaluation design, and the kinds of data that might be gathered and used.

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This paper presents ideas for the development and utilization of a comprehensive evaluation plan for an accelerated school. It contains information about the purposes of a comprehensive evaluation, the evaluation design, and the kinds of data that might be gathered and used. The first section, An Approach to Evaluation: Multiple Purposes and Multiple Perspectives, includes the following topics: (1) and Summative Evaluation Purposes; (2) An Ethnographic Perspective; (3) Intracultural Diversity; (4) Contextualization; (5) Nonjudgmental Orientation; (6) Emic or Insider's Perception, and (7) A Quantitative Perspective, The second section, Getting Started: The Baseline Description, Summative Design, and Formative Evaluation Procedures, covers the followiny topics: (1) A Baseline Description of the Accelerated School; (2) Developing an Overall Evaluation Plan; (3) Comparative Bases for Summative Evaluation; (4) Time; (5) Curriculum and Instructional Methods; (6) Decision Making; and (7) Establi;:hing Formative Evaluation Procedures. The second section, Monitoring Progress: Ongoing Evaiation of Student Learning, includes the following topics: (1) Systematic Classroom Observations; (2) Portfolios of Student Work; (3) Homework; (4) Grades and Report Cards; (5) Standardized Tests; and (6) Summing Up. Four notes and 50 references are included. (JS) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1c * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *1' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the pest that can be made * * from the original document. * ******************************************************************t**** U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and ,mormiement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER !ERIC, This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it Yii...MinOr chances have been made to improve reproduction CIU9h11 Points of vie* or opinions stated in this doi, ment do not necessarily reprelPnt Oh, al OEM position, or policy PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED 3Y