Evaluating and Revising the Physical Education Instructional Program

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Evaluating and Revising the Physical Education
Instructional Program
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Purpose of Program Evaluation

• Document the validity and/or importance of the
  program outcomes
• Document the way in which the program is being
  implemented
• Determine the effect of the program on
  participants
• Provide recommendations for revisions based on
  identified weaknesses

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Decisions involved in program evaluation
Planning Decisions What should we do?
Recycling Decisions Did we do it?
Curriculum Outcomes
Implementing Decisions Are we doing it?
Organizing Decisions How should we do it?
Educational Experiences
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Developing the evaluation plan

• Curriculum Outcomes Planning Decisions
• What is the purpose of this evaluation?
• Adopting a new curriculum? Discontinuing a
  program? Implementation of new instructional
  strategies? Program review for accreditation?
• Who is a part of this phase?
• Typically, you the teacher, other peer teachers,
  at least one administrator, perhaps one community
  member

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Developing the evaluation process

• Educational Experiences Organizing Decisions
• What is needed for this program to be successful?
• Facilities? Equipment? Scheduling? Class size?
• Teacher prep for the experiences
• Is this the current status within this program?

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Developing the evaluation process

• Educational Experiences Implementing decisions
• Are we following the curriculum?
• Do the learners know what they are supposed to
  learn?
• Do learners have pre-requisite skills based on
  the scope and sequence
• Have we implemented the curriculum model
  appropriately?

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Developing the evaluation process

• Curriculum Outcomes Recycling decisions
• Based on the planned outcomes, the decisions made
  through organization and implementation, did we
  meet our outcomes?
• Did learning occur? Did we accomplish our goals?
• If yes? Do we continue this curriculum?
• If partly yes? What do we need to change to meet
  our goals and promote student learning?
• If no? Do we discontinuing this curriculum?
• Was the program effective in meeting goals? Do we
  need program improvement to meet goals?

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Recycling Decisions

• Program Improvement
• Based on documentation of individual student
  achievement
• Consider possible changes in program objectives
  or modifications of the existing program
  standards
• Consider changes in instructional strategies
• Consider whether the program is meeting student
  need for relevant learning

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Recycling Decisions

• Program Effectiveness
• Program evaluation seeks to describe the number
  of students who are making gains on the program
  objectives
• Evaluation of the program is merely an extension
  of the evaluation of individual students

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Recycling Decisions Program Effectiveness

• ?Did change occur?
• ? Was the change statistically significant?
• ? Was the effect educationally significant?

• ? Can effects be replicated?
• ? Did the observed effects result from the
  program?

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Recycling Decisions Program Effectiveness

• If students dont meet the program outcomes, one
  must consider
• Characteristics of the teacher
• Characteristics of the students
• Characteristics of the instructional setting or
  context
• Characteristics of program implementation
• Strength of relationships often provide insight
  regarding potential program revisions

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Determining needed changes

• Knowledge of what to improve must be
  supplemented with information suggesting why
  the weakness exists
• Weakness observed in program implementation
  usually results from a lack of knowledge about
  the process that is involved in planning,
  implementing, or evaluating therefore, INSERVICE

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Recommendations

• Recommended improvements tend to focus on
  changing the activity content
• If changing content, will the new content be more
  relevant to the goals and desired outcomes? How
  will new content align with purpose of the
  curriculum model?
• Would changes in instruction increase the quality
  of the program?
• Are new activities sequence patterns adapted to
  student readiness? are resources available?
• Be ready to communicate the evaluation results to
  school community, regardless of the analysis
  outcome

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Practical Application

• Based on the scope chart developed for your
  curriculum model, how would you go about
  evaluating this program once implemented?
• Describe the process of the program evaluation
• Describe the data to be collected
• Describe how you would analyze the data
• Describe how you would utilize the data to
  implement change