A Survey of Attitudes Toward Policies and Procedures in the Evaluation of Instruction

This paper describes the development and first administrations of a survey of attitudes toward policies and procedures in the evaluating of classroom teaching. The instrument was cooperatively developed by teachers, administrators, and consultants. It provides a collective picture of an ideal system of evaluation and, simultaneously, a picture of the adequacy of the present local system of evaluating instruction. Discrepancies between the real and the ideal or conflicts of attitudes between different respondent groups do occur and can be studied. Results for two school districts are presented. Implications for improvements in the survey and methodology are also presented. (Author)