Evaluating Experiences
Evaluating Learning Experiences
Tyler’s fourth and final question asks the hardest one to face honestly: are the purposes actually being attained? Evaluation is how a curriculum finds out, and how it improves. This chapter covers why evaluation is needed, the basic notions behind it, the step-by-step procedure for building an evaluation, and the ways the results are used, from revising the curriculum to guiding individual learners.
Why checking plans against criteria is not enough, and how evaluation finds whether experiences actually produce the desired results
Evaluation as the appraisal of behavior change, why it takes more than one appraisal, and why follow-up studies matter
The paper-pencil test, observation, and other modes of gathering evidence, and how sampling appraises a whole curriculum
The steps of the evaluation procedure, why defining objectives comes first, and how the two-dimensional analysis specifies what to evaluate
Finding situations that evoke the desired behavior, and checking, modifying, or developing the instruments to capture it
How to record behavior in a test situation, summarize it in meaningful units, and judge an instrument by objectivity, reliability, and validity
Reading results as a profile of change, the cycle of revision they drive, and the other uses of evaluation beyond improving the curriculum
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