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Evaluating Professional Development

Autor Thomas R. Guskey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2000
Book of the Year 2000

National Staff Development Council, USA
How do we determine the effects and effectiveness of activities designed to enhance the professional knowledge and skills of educators so that they might improve the learning of students? Thomas R. Guskey explores the processes and procedures involved in evaluating professional development, from the very simple to the very complex, at five increasing levels of sophistication:
- Participants' reactions to professional development
- How much participants learn
- Evaluating organizational support and change
- How participants use their new knowledge and skills
- Improvement in student learning
. . . complete with sample evaluation forms, checklists, and helpful hints and tips.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761975618
ISBN-10: 0761975616
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

 "A thorough, accessible, and entirely usable work. The search for answers could not start with a better guidebook."

Cuprins

Foreword - Dennis Sparks
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. What Is Professional Development?
2. What Is Evaluation?
3. Practical Guidelines for Evaluating Professional Development
4. Level 1: Participants' Reactions
5. Level 2: Participants' Learning
6. Level 3: Organization Support and Change
7. Level 4: Participants' Use of New Knowledge and Skills
8. Level 5: Student Learning Outcomes
9. Presenting Evaluation Results
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Notă biografică

Thomas R. Guskey, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicago¿s renowned Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis (MESA) program, he began his career in education as a middle school teacher, served as an administrator in the Chicago Public Schools, and was the first Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center. He is the author/editor of twenty-seven books and over three hundred articles published in prominent research journals as well as Educational Leadership, Kappan, and The School Administrator.

Dr. Guskey served on the Policy Research Team of the National Commission on Teaching and Americäs Future, and on the task force to develop the National Standards for Professional Development. He was named a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association and was awarded the Association¿s prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award. He was also awarded Learning Forward¿s Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award and Phi Delta Kappan¿s Distinguished Educator Award. Perhaps most unique, in the 158-year history of his undergraduate institution, Thiel College, he is one of only three graduates to receive the Outstanding Alumnus Award and be inducted into the Thiel College Athletic Hall of Fame.

His most recent books include Implementing Mastery Learning (2023), Instructional Feedback: The Power, the Promise, the Practice (with Smith & Lipnevich, 2023); Get Set, Go! Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems (2020), What We Know About Grading (with Brookhart, 2019), and On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting (2015). He may be contacted by email at guskey@uky.edu, Twitter at @tguskey, or at www.tguskey.com.


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How do we determine the effects and effectiveness of activities designed to enhance the professional knowledge and skills of educators so that they might improve the learning of students? Thomas R. Guskey explores the processes and procedures involved in evaluating professional development, from the very simple to the very complex, at five increasing levels of sophistication:
Participants' reactions to professional development
How much participants learn
Evaluating organizational support and change
How participants use their new knowledge and skills
Improvement in student learning
. . . complete with sample evaluation forms, checklists, and helpful hints and tips.