Evaluation of educational change is a required course that is taken towards the end of the CCT program. It gives students a chance to pursue a project that dovetails with their own interests through action research. One of the assignments is to conduct 'strategic personal planning' in which you, "Imagine yourself some time after the course is over looking back with a sense of accomplishment on how far you have come in the area of [inserted here how to involve others in my workplace in trying PBL in library orientations]. What different kinds of things do you envisage having gone into that personal and professional development"?
This was a very valuable exercise for me in that I realized how much my own ideas and desires do depend on getting others 'on-board'. Developing a constituency is a major feature of action research - without it, good ideas may languish.
Seminar in the Evaluation of Educational Change
Evaluation of educational change is a required course that is taken towards the end of the CCT program. It gives students a chance to pursue a project that dovetails with their own interests through action research. One of the assignments is to conduct 'strategic personal planning' in which you, "Imagine yourself some time after the course is over looking back with a sense of accomplishment on how far you have come in the area of [inserted here how to involve others in my workplace in trying PBL in library orientations]. What different kinds of things do you envisage having gone into that personal and professional development"?
This was a very valuable exercise for me in that I realized how much my own ideas and desires do depend on getting others 'on-board'. Developing a constituency is a major feature of action research - without it, good ideas may languish.
Other documents from this course include:
Contribution to the course wiki
My final design project: