Designing and Utilizing Evaluation for Gifted Program Improvement

Offering the most effective methods for gifted education program evaluation and improvement, this book acts as a critical guide for administrators, teachers, and researchers. The book reviews the program evaluation process, presents models and strategies for effective evaluation, and provides tools for using evaluation as a foundation for program improvement.

Edited by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Dr. Annie Xuemei Feng, this resource is intended to offer step-by-step guidance in effective program improvement from the nation's leading experts on the topic. Chapters cover survey construction and implementation, use of focus groups, assessment of classroom practices, outcome assessment, alignment with the best practice standards, strategies for synthesizing your findings, and much more. This unique resource is a critical piece of the program improvement process.

• NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards: A Guide to Planning and Implementing High-Quality Services
• Aiming for Excellence: Annotations to the NAGC Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Program Standards
• Designing Services and Programs for High-Ability Learners: A Guidebook for Gifted Education
• Gifted Program Evaluation: A Handbook for Administrators and Coordinators
• Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says
• Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student
• Fundamentals of Gifted Education
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
• Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential
• Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind