Evaluation Questions Conference

January 4 & 5, 1996

Meeting Agenda

Meeting Aims:

  1. Identify critical questions to ask for and about evaluation of systemic educational reform efforts; of whom should the questions be asked?
  2. Identify the questions that will help determine the merit and worth of suggested educational reforms.
  3. Determine which questions are most important.
Thursday, January 4, 1996
8:00-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30-9:00 a.m. Plenary Session I
Setting the stage for evaluation of systemic reform
Aims of this meeting
Norman Webb, Team Leader, Evaluation Strategies Team
9:00-9:30 a.m. Overview of Agenda
Introductions and individual responses to this question, "What do you personally hope to get out of the next two days?"
Kathleen Paris, Office of Quality Improvement, UW-Madison
9:30-10:30 a.m. Overview of discussion papers
Writers each have 10 minutes to highlight the key questions they believe should be posed in evaluating a systemic educational reform effort and why each key question is important. Five minutes for questions will be allotted after each presentation.
Hugh Burkhardt-----Mathematics Student Outcomes
Jim Ridgway-----System Alignment and System Change
Andrew Jackman-----Community Colleges
Kathy Comfort-----Science Student Outcomes
Change to small groups
Norman Webb
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45-12:00 p.m. Small group work (See instructions to small groups)
12:00-12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45-2:45 p.m. Continue group work
2:45-3:00 p.m. Break
3:00-3:45 p.m. Complete small group work and prepare to report out
3:45-4:30 p.m. Plenary session II
Sharing of results from each group, including issues
4:30 p.m End of Day One
5:45 p.m. Pick up to Reception (lobby, Howard Johnson)
6:00 p.m. Reception at Norman Webb's house--3913 Priscilla Lane, 238-0644
7:30 p.m. Transport to dinner (on your own)
Friday, January 5, 1996
8:00-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 a.m. Plenary Session III:
Did your group enhance or modify the criteria for good questions?
Discussion and critique of questions developed in small groups
To what extent does each meet the criteria for good questions?
10:00-10:15 a.m. Break
10:15-12:00 a.m. Complete discussion and critique of questions developed in small groups
Return to small groups to refine questions based on discussion and to add additional questions
12:00-12:45 p.m. Lunch
12:45-2:15 p.m. Continue small group work and post revised questions on walls
2:15-2:30 p.m. Break
2:30-2:45 p.m. Gallery walk to read revised questions (write any comments, compliments, suggestions at the bottom of the sheet)
2:45-4:00 p.m. Plenary Session IV: Discussion of next steps
Meeting evaluation
4:00 p.m. Adjournment

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