1. Evaluation Research
Defined as the process of making judgments about the merits, value, or worth of any component of education.
(e.g. best text books to teach fifth grade science, or standardized testing to determine learning competencies)

2. Evaluation Strategies
Heuristic relevance (personal experiences)
Expert advice
Popular opinion
Well done evaluation study ******

3. Stakeholder Participation
Design development
Participation
Data collection
Evaluation-Analysis process
Part of the investigative think tank
They can bring differing biases and perspectives
Power of the process is to have Multi-Stakeholders and the ability to have a reflecting and reconciling view

4. Examples of Research Domains
Instructional Programs
DARE program p. 434
Instructional Method
A-B-A format assessment p. 435
Instructional Materials
Sexuality curricula p. 436, 457
Tests and assessment procedures
Predictors of later school difficulty p. 438, 223

5. Examples of Research Domains
Students
Evaluations
Specific groups and organizations

6. Assignment
Assess your topic domain and determine if it is a Needs Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, or Educational Research and Development strategy
Describe the goal
Describe the sample and setting
Describe the evaluation process
Determine Utility, Feasibility, Propriety, & Accuracy

7. Systems Approach for Educational Research & Development
Conduct
Instructional
analysis
Assess
Needs to
Identify
Goal(s)
Write
Performance
objectives
Analyze
Learners &
contexts
Revise instr.
Reassess the
learners
Develop
Assessment
instruments
Develop
Instructional
strategy
Develop
And select
Instructional
material
Formative
& summative
Evaluations

8. Types of Inquiry Quantitative Qualitative
Tylerian- objective based evaluation
Context-Input-Process-Product (CIPP), but this collaborative approach could be Qualitative
Qualitative
Responsive Evaluation (initiating & organizing the evaluation, identifying key issues and concerns, gathering useful information, & reporting results and making recommendations
Educational Connoisseurship & Criticism (Eisner)

9. Criteria for Judging Evaluation Research
Utility (informative, timely, influential)
Feasibility (realistic, prudent, diplomatic, and economical)
Propriety (legal and ethical)
Accuracy (technically adequate about the features that determine work o9r merit)