NC STATE UNIVERSITY

AEE 577: Evaluation in Agricultural and Extension Education

"The standards are guiding principles, not mechanical rules. They contain cautions and warnings against potential mistakes, identify practices generally agreed to be acceptable, and propose guidelines reflecting current best practice."

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational, 1994

The Program Evaluation Standards: How to Assess Evaluations of Educational Programs, (2nd Ed.), Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications

Class II:  Evaluation Standards
 

This week you will learn about the program evaluation standards and how to apply those in program evaluation. The program evaluation standards are helpful guidelines for us to conduct practical, useful, accurate and ethical evaluations. Learning and application of these guidelines are important for us to conduct sound evaluations.

Instructional Objectives:

Upon completion of this class, students should be able to:

1. Describe evaluation standards.

2. Apply ethical and other standards in evaluation.

Required Instructional Activities

1. View the Power Point presentation. This PP presentation will help you to understand class materials.

2. View this summary of evaluation standards.

3. Print off the crossword puzzle and complete with evaluation terms. (You don't need to submit this, however, it will be a valuable learning activity.)

Suggested Instructional Activities

1. Review the program evaluation standards, 2nd Edition.

2. This site provides details about evaluation standards.

Required Assignments

All items, unless otherwise noted, are due by 12:00 noon on Monday following the week of the class.

1. Go to the class WebCT Vista and post your comment or observation about the topic we discuss in this week.  Please read comments and questions posted by the class mates and share your views and comments. Be sure to read all postings by your classmates.

2. You are expected to be familiar with the course syllabus, assignments and their due dates, course orientation materials, and fellow classmates.  If you have not done so already, you need to go back and read each of these items.

3. First reading assignment due by January 24: Open this first reading assignment, complete and e-mail as an attachment to the instructor (jay_jayaratne@ncsu.edu). Remember to type your name and save your completed assignment before you e-mail it.

References

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, James R. Sanders, Chair. (1994). The program evaluation standards: How to assess evaluations of educational programs, (2nd Ed.). Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks.

Wholey, J. S., Hatry, H. P., and Newcomer, K. E. (2010). Handbook of practical program evaluation (3rd edition).  Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California.