Historical Background of Program Evaluation

UNIVERSIDAD MARIANO GALVEZ
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
LICENCIATURA EN INGLES CON ÉNFASIS EN TECNOLOGÍA
EDUCATIVA
ENFOQUES ALTERNATIVOS PARA LA
EVALUACION DE PROGRAMAS
CODIGO:076.114
LESSON 4
Historical Background of Program Evaluation
Proceed to investigate in Internet and UMG Library the following initiatives
related with Program Evaluation in teaching English.
1. PENNSYLVANIA PROJECT – 1972: a two year experiment conducted
from 1965 to 1967, with two year follow up study from 1967 to 1969.
This project attempted to deal with “unwanted variability in teacher
behavior” by:
1) utilizing large numbers of teachers
2) teacher testing
3) employment of teachers with certain experience parameters
4) teacher orientation and training
5) frequent observation of classroom behavior
2. GUME PROJECT (GöTEBORG ENGLISH TEACHING METHOD):
represents a series of comparative experiments designed to “assess the
relative merits of different approaches to teaching grammatical
structures in English as a foreign language”.
3. TALOS (TARGET LANGUAGE OBSERVATION SCHEME): developed by
Ullman and Geva in 1982. They investigated the implementation of the
curriculum through classroom observation using this method.
4. JIJOE (JET IN, JET OUT EXPERT): con ducted in Brazil in 1992,
formulate a participatory model of program evaluation that included
people from all levels of the program in the active planning and
execution of the evaluation.
5. REST (READING ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT):
conducted during 1985 to 1987 this program was designated to teach
reading skills to chemical engineering undergraduate students of the
chemical sciences faculty at the University of Guadalajara.