Assignment: Course Project Parts 3 and 4: Assessment Tool and Action Plan
As a leader in the field of education, you must constantly review program goals and initiatives, collect and analyze program-specific data, and refine strategies for the continuation of your programs to affect educational change. In Module 3, you began your Course Project by identifying a program within your specialization needing improvement or change and designing a plan to evaluate that program. With all that you have considered and begun planning in order to implement change, in this module, you consider the indicators and criteria to evaluate your program and the steps needed to implement its Assessment.
For Parts 3 and 4 of your Course Project, you will develop an Assessment tool for your selected program and an action plan to implement your tool in the future.
To prepare:
• Review the Giancola (2014) resource and read the Jayaratne (2016) and Henson (2016) articles in the Learning Resources. Reflect on the process of preparing for and developing the tools and plans needed for an effective program Assessment.
• Review the Assessment tools highlighted by this module’s Learning Resources and research other possible Assessment tools that would fit the needs of your specialization.
o Develop a draft of an Assessment tool to measure the effectiveness of your identified program using at least three of the quality indicators you identified in Part 2 of your Course Project in Module 3.
o Reflect on the measurable criteria for each indicator. What would it look like to be performing at the highest level on this indicator? What would it look like to be emerging or lacking on this indicator? Consider the criteria that can be measured for each of the indicators. What would it look like for this indicator to show that we are performing at the maximum level possible? How would it manifest itself to be emergent or deficient on this indicator?
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Research other possible templates that would meet the requirements of your specialization after reviewing the Action Plan templates that are included in the Learning Resources for this session. Create a strategy on how to put into effect in the future your program Assessment instrument that you have developed. Include the following in your plan of action, and feel free to add to it as you see fit for your particular program:
• Review the Action Plan templates in this module’s Learning Resources and research other possible templates that would fit the needs of your specialization. Develop an action plan for how to implement your program Assessment tool in the future. Include the following in your action plan and add to it as you see fit for your program:
o Program goals
o Action steps to meet those goals
o Who will complete the action steps?
o When will the action steps be completed?
o Resources need to complete the action steps
o Data collection to inform the action steps
By Day 7 of Week 8
Add the following two parts to your Course Project paper:
Part 3: Assessment Tool
Write 1–2 pages that include the following:
• A rationale for each of the quality indicators you selected for your Assessment tool. Be sure to support your rationales with program information, goals, and data as well as research.
• An explanation of the validity and reliability of your identified, measurable criteria and how they will accurately evaluate the effectiveness of the identified quality indicators
• An explanation of the program Assessment research that supports the way you created your tool
Attach your Program Assessment Tool as Appendix A of your Course Project paper.
Part 4: Action Plan
Write 1–2 pages that include the following:
• Describe how your action plan will support your program Assessment.
• Explain how you will continue with the ongoing program Assessment, including how you will collect data, interpret results, modify action steps, and disseminate the information to other stakeholders.
• Describe how this process can create meaningful change that will increase the effectiveness of your identified program.
Attach your Action Plan as Appendix B of your Course Project paper.
For this Assignment, and all scholarly writing in this course and throughout your program, you will be required to use APA style and provide reference citations.
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/sst/Assessmentmatters.pdf
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1930&context=joe
https://cdn-media.waldenu.edu/2dett4d/Walden/EDDD/2015/CH/mm/grand_city/index.html
