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DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATIVE CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION IN FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Title
DEVELOPMENT OF EVALUATIVE CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION IN FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Creator
WOOLFE, ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
At least 2,000 years before the birth of Christ, evaluation was used to measure the success of educational endeavors. By the early 1900's, measurement technology for determining human abilities was being developed. The issue in educational evaluation was to "prove" what was learned. New evaluation concepts surfaced in the 1970's. The theoretical models developed sought to "improve" educational services not to "prove" achievement of curriculum objectives. The purpose of this study was to...
Show moreAt least 2,000 years before the birth of Christ, evaluation was used to measure the success of educational endeavors. By the early 1900's, measurement technology for determining human abilities was being developed. The issue in educational evaluation was to "prove" what was learned. New evaluation concepts surfaced in the 1970's. The theoretical models developed sought to "improve" educational services not to "prove" achievement of curriculum objectives. The purpose of this study was to develop an evaluative instrument that reflected the salient criteria of the functioning of community education as one approach to assuage the problem. The analysis of the data provides the following conclusions: 1. There is a high relevancy of each criterion item and summary statement to the evaluation of community education. 2. The 60 variable items show little redundancy. 3. The summary statements are not truly summary statements that are predicted by the assumed subset of items. 4. There are statistically different opinions among the groups of respondents. 5. The four factors extracted from the data and subjected to varimax rotation support the theoretical CIPP Model. The evidence of this research indicates the resulting revised evaluative criteria have relevance and substantial construct validity for evaluation of a community school.
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Date Issued
1979
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11744
Subject Headings
Public schools--Florida--Evaluation
Format
Document (PDF)
A study of the Perceptions of Public School District Superintendents in the State of Florida Regarding Recommendations for Education Reform
Title
A study of the Perceptions of Public School District Superintendents in the State of Florida Regarding Recommendations for Education Reform.
Creator
Samuelson, Melody M., MacKenzie, Donald G., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to determine through statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to which the 67 public school district superintendents in the state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational reform as falling into the same categories as does David T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine through statistical analysis of a survey instrument the extent to which the 67 public school district superintendents in the state of Florida perceive the major areas of educational reform as falling into the same categories as does David T. Kearns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Xerox Corporation, author of "An Education Recovery Plan for America" in Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive. Factor analysis was used to group the 36 specific recommendations into their "natural" groupings as perceived by the responding superintendents. This technique revealed that the natural psychological groupings in the eyes of the respondents were not the same as Kearns asserted. The study shows that the reform hierarchy, based on the perceptions of the superintendents, is actually three layers deep with Kearns' six categories being broken down into a bottom tier of 14 discrete areas.
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Date Issued
1990
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000692
Subject Headings
Public schools--Florida--Evaluation, Education--Aims and objectives--Florida, Educational change
Format
Document (PDF)