Asking The Right Questions: The Central Issue In Evaluating Programs For The Gifted and Talented

Open Access

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Gifted Child Quarterly

Vol. 30 (1) , 38-42
https://doi.org/10.1177/001698628603000108

Abstract

What is an appropriate focus for gifted program evaluation? How can we justify focusing program evaluations on questions connected to improving the program rather than judging its success? The author suggests and justifies criteria for framing evaluation questions.

Keywords

GIFTED
APPROPRIATE FOCUS
FOCUSING PROGRAM
CENTRAL ISSUE
THAN JUDGING
JUSTIFY FOCUSING
JUSTIFIES CRITERIA
FRAMING EVALUATION
AUTHOR SUGGESTS
QUESTIONS CONNECTED

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Issues in Evaluating Programs for the Gifted
Gifted Child Quarterly, 1983
The Countenance of Educational Evaluation
Teachers College Record: the Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1967