Evaluating classroom instruction

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Evaluating classroom instruction

James S. Cangelosi

Longman, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This informative text presents the fundamentals of evaluating teachers. It illustrates how research-based principles from the field of measurement and evaluation can be integrated into evaluation programs to improve classroom instruction. It teaches students to select or design a method, or complex of methods, for evaluating teaching according to situations and circumstances and shows how to implement chosen methods. Using a sequence of examples, scenarios, illustrations, self-assessment exercises, and narrative explanations, it teaches the reader how to apply sound measurement and evaluation principles.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Fundamental principles: who evaluates instruction and for what purposes?
  • measurement and evaluation principles
  • classroom observations
  • additional data sources. Part 2 Formative methods: analyzing a complex art
  • analysis of teaching cycles. Part 3 Summative methods: summative evaluations for beginning teachers
  • evaluations for advancement of expert teachers
  • evaluations for retention of marginal teachers
  • evaluating instruction for research studies. Part 4 Looking ahead: a reason to be optimistic.

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