Organization and Management of ECDD Programmes

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ECCD PROGRAMMES

Lesson 16:Monitoring and Evaluation of ECCE programmes

Evaluation principles

Evaluation plans should be based on certain principles that reduce anxiety and increase coop¬eration among the individuals being evaluated. The evaluation process

1. Should be open: that is, the people or groups being evaluated know about the evaluation process in advance and have access to their own evaluation data. Furthermore, the people being evaluated have an opportunity to give input into their own evaluation.
   
2. Should relate directly to programme goals and objectives. Each person being evaluated should know why, when, where, how and by whom the evaluation is to be done.
   
3. Should be conducted on an individual basis. However, for reporting purposes, the results are compiled and data grouped rather than individual data are presented.
   
4. Should be confidential. The individual's evaluation is a confidential matter and is accessible only to those who need to know such as an employee's supervisor or a child's teacher.
   
5. Should build into the programme so that it occurs on a regular basis.