Designing And Utilizing Evaluations for Gifted Program Improvement - Softcover

Feng, Annie Xuemei

9781882664993: Designing And Utilizing Evaluations for Gifted Program Improvement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188266499X ISBN 13: 9781882664993

Publisher: Prufrock Pr, 2004

Offering the most effective methods for gifted education program evaluation and improvement, this book acts as a critical guide for administrators, teachers, and researchers. The book reviews the program evaluation process, presents models and strategies for effective evaluation, and provides tools for using evaluation as a foundation for program improvement.

Edited by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Dr. Annie Xuemei Feng, this resource is intended to offer step-by-step guidance in effective program improvement from the nation's leading experts on the topic. Chapters cover survey construction and implementation, use of focus groups, assessment of classroom practices, outcome assessment, alignment with the best practice standards, strategies for synthesizing your findings, and much more. This unique resource is a critical piece of the program improvement process.

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About the Author:

Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Education at the College of William and Mary, where she initiated and serves as the director of the Center for Gifted Education. Formerly she initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University. Joyce has also served as state director of gifted programs in Illinois, a regional director, a local coordinator of gifted programs, and a teacher of gifted high school students. Her major research interests are in the talent development process and effective curricular interventions with the gifted. She is the author of several books and has written over 200 other publications on gifted education. She is the editor of Gifted and Talented International and received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 1997 from the National Association for Gifted Children and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia in 1993. She is also the mother of an adolescent daughter. She holds a B.E., M.A., M.E., and Ed.D. from the University of Toledo.

Annie Xuemei Feng coordinates the research and evaluation projects of the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. In addition to gifted program evaluation studies, her research interests also include gender-related studies and cross-cultural research, particularly focusing on highly gifted populations.

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