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Evaluation
Documents
- Annual
Performance Report 2004-05
Executive Summary
[doc]
- Annual Performance Report 2003-04
Executive Summary
[doc]
- Annual
Performance Report 2002-03
Executive Summary*
[doc] [pdf]
*Note:
Complete Annual Performance Reports are available upon request.
Overview
of the Evaluation Plan
The Cumberland River Valley Consortium Project is designed
to provide teachers with intensive training in American
history in order to strengthen their content knowledge and
their facility with the research discipline of history.
The goals of the Teaching American History Cumberland River
Valley Consortium program (TAH grant) are:
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Teachers increase their knowledge of history content
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Teachers use primary materials, local history resources,
and technology in history
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Students increase their understanding and skill level
of American history.
The evaluation will measure the success of these goals through
quantitative and qualitative analysis of the various grant
activities and their impact on teachers and students. The
evaluation methods include surveys, interviews, assessment
of curriculum materials and classroom observation.
Since
it is essential that the evaluation design align with the
activities of the grant, the evaluators have chosen a Logic
Model as described in the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Logic
Model Development Guide (2001) as the framework for the
evaluation. The logic model is especially effective for
a project involving many stakeholders. The guide states:
Effective
evaluation and program success rely on the fundamentals
of clear stakeholder assumptions and expectations about
how and why a program will solve a particular problem, generate
new possibilities, and make the most of valuable assets.
The
logic model uses a visual representation to encourage dialogue,
questioning and program modifications. This tool for common
understanding of assumptions and ideas is especially important
in the TAH grant because the stakeholders have different
orientations to American history. With this tool, American
history activities will be optimally aligned with the expected
outcomes taking into account the perspectives of teachers,
students, university faculty, school administrators, parents
and historians.
Evaluation
by Dragonfly Enterprises
Judy Butler and Susan Kuner, Ed.D., of Dragonfly Enterprises,
Nashville, Tennessee are the evaluators for this Teaching
American History grant. They bring extensive experience
in program design, curriculum development, teacher professional
development and evaluation for K-12 schools, higher education,
and educational collaborations.
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