Blog Evaluation week10

• Explain your responsibility, as a scholar practitioner, to lead evaluation initiatives.

Performance in schools is increasingly judged on the basis of effective learning outcomes. Information is critical to knowing whether the school system is delivering good performance and to providing feedback for improvement in student outcomes.

As a practitioner, ensuring the evaluation and assessment framework, developing competencies for evaluation and for using feedback, securing links with classroom practice, and overcoming the challenges of implementation are vital

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• Explain what might be your greatest barrier and/or most important downfall to avoid when leading program evaluations and why.

I believe developing competencies for evaluation and for using feedback could be the most important downfall to avoid. The effectiveness of evaluation and assessment relies to a great extent on ensuring that both those who design and undertake evaluation activities as well as those who use their results possess the proper skills and competencies. This is crucial to provide the necessary legitimacy to those responsible for evaluation and assessment.

• Describe how you might minimize this barrier and/or downfall to ensure that evaluations are effective.

Competencies for using feedback to improve practice are vital to ensure that evaluation and assessment procedures are effective. Assessment for improvement requires the inclusion of teachers in the process of school development and improvement. As a result, for instance, it is pertinent to include training for evaluation in initial teacher education alongside the development of research skills.