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Unit 17 : Integrated Approach of Evaluation

updating goals and operations to improve both performance and quality of institutional outputs. Notes
Such an institutional self-study can be undertaken annually or at an internal of every 2-3 years to
get at the issues, problems, possibilities, solutions and review of the policies.
The following are essential characteristics of institutional self-evaluation :

Pluralistic Approach to Institutional Analysis and Review
For this the following steps are necessary :
(i) We have to identify institutional clientele (students, teachers, administrators, parents etc.)
who are interested and ready to participate in study and analysis of problems.
(ii) Participants have to identify specific institutional problems and suggest solutions.
Using Psychometric and Descriptive Approaches for Data Collection and Processing
For this the advantage can be taken of :
(i) open discussion among the participant observers;
(ii) emotional interaction of parents, community and supervisors;
(iii) extensive data collection, analysis and interpretation; and
(iv) evaluation and provision of research support.

Using Humanistic Illuminative Evaluation
This involves views, opinions and concerns of all stake-holders of institutional community like:
(i) principal, staff, students and auxiliary staff;

(ii) alumni, employers and colleges where the students seek admissions;
(iii) managing committee, communit representatives and P.T.A. representative; and
(iv) curriculum and evaluation experts for providing technical knowhow (not for judgmenting).
Using Reports and Documentary Evidences
This refers to analysis of :
(i) inspectors’ or supervisors’ reports of visitation during the years;
(ii) inter-institutional cooperative testing results and boards results;
(iii) governing bodies or managing committee reports; and
(iv) student-intake data, i.e. background of students studying in the school.
Institutional self-study is an in-house evaluation, which is formative in nature and should not
pose any threat to staff of the institution. Its suggestion a recommendations are more likely to be
accepted and implemented. There is need for seminars and workshops execute institutional self-
studies on regular basis which would make institutions more aware of their usefulness.

If evaluation becomes an integral part of all projects, it would go a long way to
ensure attainment of objectives and improve educational practices.

17.2 Integrating Rational, Formative and Summative Evaluation

Whether it is pupil, curriculum or programme evaluation it is important, to use three phases of
evaluation at different stages of pupil evaluation, curriculum evaluation and programme
evaluation.

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