Participatory evaluation

• Autores: Ronald Mackay, Sally Wellesley, Etty Bazergan
• Localización: ELT journal: An international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, ISSN 0951-0893, Vol. 49, Nº 4, 1995, págs. 308-317
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article describes then conceptualization, start-up, and initial implementation of collaborative evaluation. This self-evaluation approach has been integrated into a network of some twenty-five language centres participating in the British Council/Overseas Development Administration Institutional English Language Training Project in Indonesia. The evaluation is shaped by a framework based on a performance indicator approach to institutional self-evaluation and development planning (Mackay 1994), and a contextually-adapted version of an approach successfully used in school self-evaluation in Scotland (Scottish Office Education Department 1992). We also address some of the criticisms directed by sceptics towards participatory evaluation. The main purpose for establishing this framework is to permit language centre personnel to assess their current practices and to identify strategies that will guarantee the sustainability of their centres when external project support is no longer available. Another aim is to ensure the quality of the administrative and instructional activities of the language centres (Rea-Dickins and Germaine 1992)