Evaluation is a regularly occurring fact of life in American education and society more generally.
Students, teachers, administrators, school board members, legislators, and patrons all evaluate and get evaluated. The question is not whether evaluation will occur, but what kind of evaluation will be done. Understanding how to make evaluations disciplined and systematic rather than biased and haphazard is essential if evaluation is to improve the quality of the evaluands central to education. This course provides information and experiences to help students make evaluations disciplined. In addition , each student will be asked to identify a third text or resource to study and summarize for the benefit of the entire class to expand everyone's awareness of the variety of materials available on this topic.