How May Effective Self-Evaluation of the Secondary School Be Organized and Administered?

Abstract

The workshop and study committee plan of organization is a first step in the improvement of school and classroom programs of education and, therefore, a valuable technique of in-service teacher education. It should be considered as a continuous, on-going effort which wil keep educational programs up-to-date, and which will become increasingly effective as each year's new progress becomes a culmination of the progress of all previous years.have a number of advantages over other types of evaluation which might be made. Some of these include:1. The entire staff of the school can be involved in active participation. 2. The program can provide the vehicle and the motivation for a comprehensive in-service growth program.3. It fosters careful and systematic study of the several facets of a school program.4. It involves the staff in a directed program of professional activity. 5. It encourages co-operative thinking and the pooling of judgments on matters concerned with school improvement.6. It stimulates members of different departments to study and understand the problems of departments other than their own. 7. It permits involving non-professional as well as professional staff members. The involvement of board of education members and lay citizens can have valuable public relations outcomes. 8. Costs of a self-evaluation program are very modest when compared with the returns which can be derived.