| Session Title: Foundations for Evaluating Staff Development: Principles into Practice |
| Demonstration Session 359 to be held in Mineral Hall Section B on Thursday, Nov 6, 3:35 PM to 4:20 PM |
| Sponsored by the Human Services Evaluation TIG and the Pre-K - 12 Educational Evaluation TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| James Sass, Los Angeles Unified School District, jimsass@earthlink.net |
| Abstract: There is much more to evaluating staff development activities than using post-session satisfaction forms. This Demonstration addresses foundational principles and practices for useful evaluation of staff development initiatives. These principles and practices include identifying key aspects of the professional development initiative, measuring outcomes based on a logic model for the initiative, follow-up data collection on such areas as participant learning and implementation, factors outside of the staff development activities that could affect implementation and outcomes, and innovative techniques for assessing various benefits derived from staff development. The session will begin by addressing the inadequacy of the all-too-common post-session satisfaction form. The next step will be the presentation of principles for effective evaluation of staff development. These principles will be followed by discussion of concrete practices and techniques for evaluating staff development. Participants will receive handouts, including a bibliography, to support their implementation of session content and continued learning. |