Educational evaluation is the
evaluation
Evaluation is a
systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to ...
process of characterizing and appraising some aspect/s of an
education
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...
al process.
There are two common purposes in educational evaluation which are, at times, in conflict with one another. Educational institutions usually require evaluation data to demonstrate effectiveness to funders and other stakeholders, and to provide a measure of performance for marketing purposes. Educational evaluation is also a professional activity that individual educators need to undertake if they intend to continuously review and enhance the learning they are endeavoring to facilitate.
Purpose for educational evaluation
The
Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation is an American/Canadian based Standards Developer Organization (SDO). The Joint Committee, created in 1975, represents a coalition of major professional associations formed in 1975 to dev ...
published three sets of standards for educational evaluations. ''The Personnel Evaluation Standards'' was published in 1988, ''The Program Evaluation Standards'' (2nd edition) was published in 1994, and ''The Student Evaluations Standards'' was published in 2003.
See also
Notes
# Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1988).
The Personnel Evaluation Standards: How to Assess Systems for Evaluating Educators.' Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
# Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (1994).
' Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
# Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. (2003).
The Student Evaluation Standards: How to Improve Evaluations of Students.' Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press.
References
External links
OECD's Education GPS: a review of education policy analysis and statistics. Policy analysis in evaluation and quality assuranceAmerican Evaluation Association*
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Distance Education and Other Educational Technologies**
Extension Education Evaluation**
Graduate Student and New Evaluators**
PreK-12 Educational Evaluation**
Teaching of EvaluationAmerican Educational Research Association*
Division H School Evaluation & Program Development*
Standards for Educational and Psychological TestingAssessment in Higher Educationweb site.
Joint Committee on Standards for Educational EvaluationThe EvaluationWiki
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Evaluation Resource Institute
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
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