Title: The Quality Assurance Model for Process Evaluation.
Abstract: The Quality Assurance Model for Process Evaluation has been developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory. It provides educational aaministrators several alternative techniques for maximizing desired terminal behaviors. By working with project directors, the evaluator helps to assist the programb implementation, providing prescriptive feedback in the programb weakest areas. Portions of the model have been used by over 50 educational administrators working with 500 teachers in a six state area in the Southwest. Several different programs have found it slAccessful, and its adaptability to most any program or curriculum makes it important to existing educational ad ministrators and those p=eparing for roles that will require skill in project evaluation. THE QUALITY ASSURANCE MODEL FOR PROCESS EVALUATION by: Max Luft, Janice Lujan, and Katherine Bemis Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory, Inc. Albuquerque, New Mexico -Introduction to the Problen In the last 100 years, the role of the educational administrator has changed from facilitator to financial accountant of education. The principal, formerly the master teacher and the source.of good educational instruction in his school has become the financial paper-tiger of the local education agencies. With increased federal funding, his role has become more oriented towards accounting than accountability. It is interesting to witness how little of the current administrator's time is actually spent improving the role of the teacher as the supplier of education in our present day school systens. Principals, coordinators and superintendants are engaged in the fight to keep records flowing to the government agencies assuring money for programs which are ineffectively evaluated and whose success is based largely upon the funding capacity which is reappropriated year after year. To facilitate the role of the educational administrator as an evaluator, the Southwestern Cocperative Educational Laboratory (SWCEL) has developed the Quality Assurance Model for Process Evaluation. The aim is to provide administrators with an opportunity to maximize the identified terminal behaviors of educational programs. Highlighting this technique is an evaluation scheme that provides constant feedback regarding success of program objectives both by isolating instances of program failure and providing prescriptive feedback for these cases and by identifying successful ,educational techniques. The model permits varying degrees of time and financial commitment by utilizing an approach allowing the administrator to select which phases of the evaluation model he feels he can adequately implement within given constraints of program, time and money. As shown in Figure 1, Phase III includes all of Phase I, and II, with Phase II requiring participation in Phase I.
Publication Year: 1972
Publication Date: 1972-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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