RealVisions consultants tailor a variety of quantitative and qualitative evaluation instruments to your project. Within a comprehensive evaluation matrix, instrument questions probe the following:
- Assessment
- Student test and assessment scores (standardized tests as well as teacher-, school-, district- and state-generated tests)
- Print and video portfolio assessments of students’ arts and non-arts projects
- Teacher- and student-generated rubrics for arts and non-arts projects
- Teacher-generated rubrics for self-assessing change in teacher practice
- Self-assessments by teachers and students
- School data
- School demographic information
- Data on attendance, discipline referrals, parent involvement, teacher turnover
- Research-based timed classroom observations that
- Quantify level of student engagement during lessons
- Determine nature of engagement
- Identify teaching and planning skills
- Participants’ stories, self-reflections, feedback, perceptions
- Interviews with teachers, administration, staff, students, parents, professional development providers, artists, teaching artists
- Focus groups with teachers, administration, staff, students, parents, professional development providers, artists, teaching artists
- Surveys (both closed and open-ended questions) of teachers, students, parents, administrators, staff
- Program documents
- Lesson plans
- School improvement plans
- Website content
- Programs of arts events and arts-integration programs
- Course outlines and materials by professional development providers
- Internal program evaluations
- Internal surveys of teachers, students, parents, professional development providers carried out by program administrators and project directors
- Self-evaluations and reflective summaries by program administrators and project director.
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