FORECASTING EVALUATION OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS: FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH OBJECTS

Year 2016, Volume: 5 , 313 - 316, 01.09.2016

Maria Kalathaki

Abstract

Evaluation
and inspection systems can provide valuable feedback to the school to build upon
its achievements and meet the changing needs. Evaluation is treated as an
integral part of the teaching and learning process and focuses on actual
teaching practice, deeply transformative force in society, offering feedback
and optimization processes. European Parliament and the Council, in 2001, set
up the framework of the school evaluation processes with the recommendation to
the Member States to establish transparent quality assurance systems and
encouraged them to create a balanced framework of school self-assessments, and
any external evaluations, to involve participation and stakeholders in all
processes which can disseminate good practices, achievements of knowledge and
experience. The initial assessment of educational projects is carried out before
the start of a project to estimate some variables related to the development of
the program. In this research, School Projects of Environmental Education of
Heraklion, Crete (Greece) were checked about the prediction of evaluation
concerning the planning and structuring phase. The research queries concerned
the prediction of possible processes and techniques of initial evaluation, with
criteria the analysis of needs, the recording of the objectives, the selection
of type and model, the educational schedule and budget. An Evaluation Tool with
the criteria of the projects’ forecasting evaluation applied in order to check
if the design and planning are aims-centered, innovative, sustainable,
participative and digital. Status of the assessment, in terms of validity,
reliability, the persuasiveness, its acceptance, its use and ultimately its
usefulness, depends primarily on the accuracy and appropriateness of the
criteria used 

Keywords

Environmental education, school educational projects, forecasting evaluation, diagnostic evaluation

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