Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g63DFTX24521; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <fc.004c4d190dbe000d3b9aca0067bafb17.dbe0138@umit.maine.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Schneckenburger" <Mary_Schneckenburger@umit.maine.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1214] Re: Assessment question X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Status: O Content-Length: 1552 Lines: 25 Dear Dianna and list members, I am interested in assessment and evaluation questions and wonder if you would clarify for me the way you are using the terms. By assessment do you mean looking at and collecting evidence of learning in the children and/or parents to inform teaching and learning, or do you mean looking at and collecting evidence of how well the program is working so you can modify it as you go along? And by evaluation do you mean setting a value on the learning of participants and encoding it in a letter grade or test score for reporting/accountability purposes or evaluating/judging the program as a whole for reporting/accountability purposes? Or something else? Jane in Ohio brings up an issue discussed here before: that of not wanting to impose parental or family values of staff upon program participants. I wonder how it would work if parents in a program could brainstorm a list of qualities they thought represented good parenting and then organize like items into categories, by which they could then assess themselves? I wonder if this could lead to discussion, goal setting around the student created criteria and topics of study chosen by the parents? I am curious, Jane, do you find that there are elements of the EFF Family Role Map that certain cultures find problematic? Mary Mary Schneckenburger Staff Development Specialist Center for Adult Learning & Literacy 5766 Shibles Hall University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5766 207 581 2498 ext. 19 (office) 207 268 4013 (home) mary.schneckenburger@umit.maine.edu
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