- Another strategy might be to circulate a copy of the seventeen
good practice statements as presented in this manual ahead of time
and ask
the tutors which
ones they would like to discuss at length at the meeting. The Program
Questionnaire then becomes a more detailed resource for the meeting.
- If your program has regular tutor meetings or in-service sessions,
you could select one or two of the statements to generate in-depth
discussion about the
implications of the statement and the attached conditions, and begin
to analyze what they really might mean to your program. Other interested
community
members might be invited to participate as well.
- In larger programs, twenty matched pairs or more, the group process
could not involve everyone without becoming unwieldy. Here, a representative
group of
tutors and learners could be chosen to be part of the evaluation team
with professional staff. Feedback from the other participants would
have to be
by questionnaire.
- A respected "third party" or someone at arm's length from the
program might be invited in to facilitate a group evaluation session.
- In a drop-in learning centre arrangement where tutors work with
different learners and are under professional supervision, the tutor
questionnaire
may not prove very applicable. However, these tutors could be invited
to participate
in a
group evaluation or discussion around the statements in the Program
Questionnaire.
- After you have done your first complete evaluation, you may decide
that on subsequent occasions you will just focus on the statements
which received
the
lowest ratings and reassess those areas.
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