Program Design and Evaluation
The Elements We Consider in Program Design and Evaluation
All of our educational programs are designed and evaluated using The New York State Teaching & Learning Academy’s Criteria for Peer Review. These criteria are key to the development process; they provide a focus for commenting on the material presented, and help to make clear connections to the Learning Standards.
Relation to Learning Standards
Does this program clearly link to performance indicators for the specified standards? Does it require participants to understand and use ideas, perspectives, tools and/or methods that are central to the learning standards?
Construction of Knowledge
Does this program require participants to construct their own knowledge, i.e., work out a genuine understanding of what they are learning? Do they have to discover information? Do they have to organize, synthesize, interpret, explain, or evaluate information?
Challenge
Is the learning experience sufficiently challenging to the participants?
Does the learning experience, as presented, seem likely to engage participants and move them toward further learning?
Assessment Plan
Does the program incorporate elements of good assessment: clear criteria to guide work, feedback on work in progress, and reflection on work completed?
Adaptability
Is the learning experience easily adaptable to the classroom and the students? Or does it require undue expense or extraordinary circumstances?
Technology Integration
Does technology, when used, assist participants to achieve the learning standard(s) addressed in the assessment plan?
Value Beyond School
Can this learning experience be applied to the world beyond school?
Presentation
Is the learning experience clearly designed, fully developed and ably presented, so that all participants have a clear understanding of what is happening in the classroom and can relate to it?
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