About Program Evaluation
The Program Evaluation Unit supports three primary functions
in the Office of Shared Accountability, which are all
related to our role as “Improvement Facilitators”:
1)
conducting comprehensive evaluations of MCPS educational programs and initiatives;
2)
providing technical assistance to support the development of local assessments (MCPS Assessment Program) and to report on student performance on these assessments; and
3)
offering support with the evaluation component on major grant projects and to MCPS staff in self-evaluation and monitoring.
Unit members are expected to fulfill all roles essential to program evaluation: design evaluation plans, design tools for collecting data, conduct observations and interviews, run statistical analyses, interpret data, write reports, and provide assistance in communicating findings to various stakeholder groups. Members of the Program Evaluation Unit also serve on many MCPS committees related to these functions.
