Evaluating Professional Development / Edition 1

by Thomas R. Guskey

Overview

This is a practical guide to evaluating professional development programs at five increasing levels of sophistication: participants' reaction to professional development; how much participants learned; evaluating organizational support and change; how participants use their new knowledge and skills; and improvements in student learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761975618
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/18/1999
Series:	Educational Quality and Accountability Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	1,061,066
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas R. Guskey, Ph D, is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s renowned Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis (MESA) program, he began his career in education as a middle school teacher, served as an administrator in the Chicago Public Schools, and was the first Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning, a national educational research center. He is the author/editor of twenty-seven books and over three hundred articles published in prominent research journals as well as Educational Leadership, Kappan, and The School Administrator.

Dr. Guskey served on the Policy Research Team of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and on the task force to develop the National Standards for Professional Development. He was named a Fellow in the American Educational Research Association and was awarded the Association’s prestigious Relating Research to Practice Award. He was also awarded Learning Forward's Outstanding Contribution to the Field Award and Phi Delta Kappan's Distinguished Educator Award. Perhaps most unique, in the 158-year history of his undergraduate institution, Thiel College, he is one of only three graduates to receive the Outstanding Alumnus Award and be inducted into the Thiel College Athletic Hall of Fame.

His most recent books include Implementing Mastery Learning(2023), Instructional Feedback: The Power, the Promise, the Practice (with Smith & Lipnevich, 2023); Get Set, Go! Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems (2020), What We Know About Grading (with Brookhart, 2019), and On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting (2015). He may be contacted by email at [e-mail], Twitter at @tguskey, or at www.tguskey.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Dennis Sparks
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. What Is Professional Development?
2. What Is Evaluation?
3. Practical Guidelines for Evaluating Professional Development
4. Level 1: Participants' Reactions
5. Level 2: Participants' Learning
6. Level 3: Organization Support and Change
7. Level 4: Participants' Use of New Knowledge and Skills
8. Level 5: Student Learning Outcomes
9. Presenting Evaluation Results
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

"A thorough, accessible, and entirely usable work. The search for answers could not start with a better guidebook."

--The School Administrator

From the Publisher

"A thorough, accessible, and entirely usable work. The search for answers could not start with a better guidebook. "

The School Administrator