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POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
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COURSE CODE: EDME 6121
COURSE TITLE: EVALUATION OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 4
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Overview
This course is intended to (a) assist the evaluators in defining
what their responsibilities should be when pursuing activities
in the context of programmes, products, and curricular
evaluation; (b) provide an evaluation framework, which should
allow evaluators to choose an appropriate model or strategy to
guide their evaluation; and (c) make available to the evaluator
the method and techniques for dealing with the collection and
analysis of evaluation data.
OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. understand the scope of their involvement in the evaluation
of courses, programmes, and curricula at the school;
2. discriminate between standards used to judge or evaluate
performance in different programmes or contexts;
3. design and use appropriate models, strategies, or
frameworks to conduct evaluation exercises;
4. select outcome measures in evaluating teachers,
administrators, students, and departments and projects at
the school;
5. identify relevant approaches and strategies in data
collection and data analysis.
CONTENT
• Perspectives:role and context of evaluation,evaluation as a
disciplined inquiry, standards for evaluation of programmes,
products, and curricula
• Focus on evaluation within an educational system: systemwide
evaluation, national monitoring of existing curricular
programmes, teacher evaluation and accountability, school
evaluation administration, curricular programme, plant,
equipment and materials; evaluation of performance units
• Evaluation of curriculum development projects from the
identification of values and derivation of aims to largescale
implementation
• Design evaluation models and strategies: Selection of
outcome measures, judgmental, decision-management
and decision-objective strategies, standard group designs,
individualised programme designs, multi-stage, holistic,
and quality assurance models
Methods of Delivery
The course will be delivered by a team of lecturers in a
combination of plenary and small-group sessions. In addition,
students will make presentations analyzing data from individual
schools, educational districts, and national systems.
ASSESSMENT
Examination 60%
Coursework assignment 40%
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A critique of the proposed National Science Education
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Hoy, W., & Miskel, C. (2005). Educational administration: Theory,
research and practice (7 th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
National Research Council. (1996). National Science Education
Standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Owen, J. M., & Rogers, P. J. (1999) Program evaluation: Forms and
approaches. London: Sage.
Popham, J. (1987). The merits of measurement-driven instruction.
Phi Delta Kappan, 68(9), 679-682.
Smith, M., & O’Day, J. (1991). Systemic school reform. In S.
Furhman & B. Malen (Eds.), The politics of curriculum and
testing: The 1990 yearbook of the politics of education (pp.
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Walberg, H., & Haertel, G. (Eds.). (1990). The international
encyclopaedia of educational evaluation. Oxford, UK:
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