Director's Role In Evaluation Case Study

1. What is the director's role in evaluation?

The director has a few different roles in the evaluation. One role deals with the center itself evaluating whether or not the program has following its mission and meeting all its goal. From the information gathered they need to figure out what is or isn’t need to improve the program itself. The other role is what they do when dealing with staff evaluations. During staff evaluations, a direction role is to observe and analyze the work of the staff in question. They also need to find ways to encourage that development in that staff member’s strength while working on promoting growth in their weaker areas. If the staff member’s weakness greatly outweighs their strengths, then the director will have to fire them. When doing the evaluation, the director makes sure to inform the staff member that an emulation is being done and what the method of evaluation will be.

2. List several methods of assessing children's progress. (7 pts.)

There are several different methods for assessing children’s progress at the center.

These notes can come in many different forms from paper file cards to computer documents. The teacher will note the changes in development, their needs, and individual traits Another method is checklists, this is a basic list of different behaviors, that a teacher can mark down if they have seen a child display it or not. A method somewhat similar to checklist are rating scales, this means that a director creates lists that can qualify different behaviors. Next method would be portfolios, which are a collection of various different information about a child from their progress to bits of a child work. The final method is standardized test which involves children choosing and seeing the correct answers of a test that is based on current