Course Description

An overview of educational evaluation, practices, and methods related to social justice issues in P-16 settings. Student will explore assessment of the ethical and legal considerations when engaging in social justice assessment and program evaluation. Students will design a social justice assessment and evaluation report.

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Athena Title

Social Justice Assessment

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Non-Traditional Format

Mixed delivery.

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Prerequisite

Permission of department

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Semester Course Offered

Offered summer semester every year.

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Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

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Student learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to define social justice assessment, program evaluation, and related research processes.
• Students will be able to discuss social justice issues and concerns regarding privilege and oppression statuses related to educational testing in P-16 settings.
• Students will be able to discuss the purposes of various types of social justice assessments and program evaluation.
• Students will be able to design a social justice program evaluation and/or assessment project targeting a current social justice issue within their current setting. Determine how evaluation results can be used to improve programs geared towards this social justice issue.
• Students will be able to critique the design, implementation, and findings of a social justice program evaluation. Attend to intersectionality of issues of privilege and oppression throughout design, implementations, and evaluation.

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Topical Outline

• Discussion of course syllabus, assignments, and expectations. How to distinguish testing, assessment, research, and program evaluation
• Assessment and Program Evaluation Overviews. Planning an Assessment and Program Evaluation
• Evidence-Based Discussion: ADHD, Selecting Criteria and Standards, Developing Measures
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Disruptive Behavior, Qualitative Methods
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Social Withdrawal, Nonexperimental Methods, Quasi-Experimental Methods
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Violence, Experiment to Evaluate Programs, Cost and Outcomes
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Sexual Behavior, What Scores Tell Us and Don’t Tell Us, Writing Evaluation Reports
• Encouraging Utilization
• Evidence-Based Discussion: OCD; Evidence-Based Discussion: Stress, Validity
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Prejudice
• Evidence-Based Discussion: Substance Abuse, Testing Issues
• Ethics, Sensible Use, Hot Topics
• Program Evaluation Summaries

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Syllabus

Select Faculty / Instructor to download syllabus:   Moore, Cary

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Public CV

Select a file to download:   Moore, Cary

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