Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement

I found "Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement" (Jason 2003) easier to understand than other books on evaluating courses. I is aimed at school courses, rather than management programs and so was a bit easier to understand.

About the Book
Evaluating Programs to Increase Student Achievement, Second Edition, provides school leaders with practical guidelines and tools to evaluate the effectiveness of school programs. Using reader-friendly terms, the author thoroughly discusses the steps of the evaluation process so that practitioners of all experience levels and backgrounds will gain a solid conceptual foundation, and can plan and carry out program evaluations. The revised edition includes: additional examples to illustrate the program evaluation process, an expanded discussion of the principal's role in the project, a facilitator's guide for team leaders.

Table of contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author

1. Perspectives on Program Evaluation
2. How Program Evaluation Contributes to a Learning Organization
3. Using Program Evaluation to Improve the Curriculum—A Developmental Approach
4. An Experimental Approach for Evaluating Programs
5. Program Evaluation Through Collaboration
6. Measuring Program Outcomes
7. The Evaluation Process: Phases 1, 2, and 3
8. The Evaluation Process: Phases 4, 5, and 6
9. Writing the Evaluation Report
10. Assessing the Evaluation Project
11. Revisiting the Principal's Leadership Role in Program Evaluation

• Back Matter