Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development'Assessing Impact' assists school- and district-level staff development program leaders and other stakeholders to plan and conduct evaluations of staff programs that are designed to improve student achievement, strengthen the power of individual programs and to assess their impact. |
Contents
Program Evaluation Overview | 7 |
Evaluating Staff Development | 21 |
Assess Evaluability | 31 |
Formulate Evaluation Questions | 53 |
Construct the Evaluation Framework | 65 |
Collect Data | 97 |
Interpret Data | 109 |
Disseminate and Use Findings | 119 |
Evaluate the Evaluation | 129 |
A Guide to the Appendices | 141 |
Sample DataCollection Instruments | 159 |
Staff Development Planning Guide | 195 |
Mapping an Evaluation Step by Step | 204 |
Online Resources for Evaluation | 210 |
References | 223 |
FACILITATORS GUIDE TO THIS BOOK | vi |
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