Evaluation of the effectiveness of education: Some problems and prospects.

Autor/in	Tumin, Melvin M.
Titel	Evaluation of the effectiveness of education: Some problems and prospects.
Quelle	In: Interchange, (1970) 3, S.96-109Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-5230
DOI	10.1007/BF02214679
Schlagwörter	Evolutionary Stage; Avant; Scientific Evidence; Educational System; Case History
Abstract	Abstract Two case histories of efforts at educational evaluation—the Pennsylvania Evaluation of Quality Education and the Educational Testing Service Longitudinal Study of Head Start Programs—are considered here to illustrate a number of the major problems facing the field of evaluation. These include the perils of intuitionist “holism” and the matching dangers of psychometric trivialization; the strain between the hyper-enthusiasm of the politics of educational reform and the inherent restraint of scientific evidence regarding alternatives. A third case study of an attempt to institue Advanced Placement Tests in Art studies, designed to legitimate art as a “hard subject,” suggests a range of possible negative consequences that arise from attempting to introduce structured evaluation too early and too uniformly in an unstructured and variegated field. The results of a two-year effort at devising a model for measuring and comparing the effectivencess of educational systems are reported, indicating significant but instructive failure. A number of the major lessons learned during that effort are recited. indicating, overall, the importance of treating evaluation as a transactive process that must be weaned through varius evolutionary stages into full productivity.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05