31Jan 2017

EVALUATION TOOL FOR THE FORCASTINGINITIAL EVALUATION OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY.

  • Ph.D., Med, School Advisor for Secondary Science Teachers of West Crete, Greece.
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Evaluation is an integral part of teaching and learning process focusing on actual teaching practice, deeply transformative force in society, offering feedback and optimization to the teaching activities. The carried out research was a qualitative approach to the initialprimary, forecasting, diagnostic evaluation of school environmental projects, focusing to the needs of stakeholders and participants, the recording of objectives, type and model, schedule and budget of evaluation giving emphasis to the service or not of requirements and expectations of the project stakeholders, the used methodology and the materialized activities that matches the objectives. An Evaluation Tool for the forecasting evaluation of school projects of Environmental Education developed to serve the needs of the research. The design of evaluation, especially the forecasting initial evaluation,is extremely neglected in Greek SPEEs which submitted for approval of implementation in Secondary Education of Crete, also in the rest regions of Greece as bibliographic research appealed, mainly attributed to the type of the used Application Form which needs upgrade, also to the lack of the proper teachers’ training. In order to design educational interventions in the Greek schools of the 21st century with aims-centered characteristics, innovative, sustainable, integration and digital, the School Projects of Environmental Education, need to be materialized in more comprehensive framework with detailed templates of Application Form and Final Report by well-educated teachers.


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[Kalathaki Maria. (2017); EVALUATION TOOL FOR THE FORCASTINGINITIAL EVALUATION OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS: A CASE STUDY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 2938-2948] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


KALATHAKI MARIA
School Advisor for Secondary Science Teachers of West Crete, Greece

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3095      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3095