anew program on teachers” perceptions of their
competence. They need to evaluate the influence
of a program's outcomes on the actions of admin-
istrators. They also need to consider outcomes
that are not directly evident atthe conclusion of
program. And they should attend to long-range
effects, 100, Stake contends that outcomes are the
consequences of education—immediate and
long-range, cognitive and affective, personal and
community wide.
Stake's model for planning an evaluation
study provides an organizational framework that
points out data to be considered and contrasts
what is planned and what has occurred, This
model arranges the three types of data into a
‘matrix, Figure 11-3 shows the matrix. The model
shows the antecedents, transactions, and oul-
comes—the elements of evaluation—both in-
tended and observed.
The challenge to the evaluator is to identify
contingencies, and later congruencies, among,
these antecedents, transactions and outcomes.
Contingencies are the relationships among the
variables in the three categories: antecedents,
transaction, and outcomes. Ideally, it should be
demonstrated that the outcomes are 2 result of
antecedents and transactions. If it can be shown
that transactions are related to prior antecedents,
then the transactions are logically contingent on
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the antecedents. Similarly, the outcomes should
be logically vontingent from the transactions. In
short, one category is expected to lead to observ-
able andjor measurable variables in another cate
gory.
‘The model shows that the evaluator is also
concerned with congruence between the intended
and the observed outcomes. In dealing with con-
‘gruency, he or she strives to match what is in-
tended and what is observed. Did what was
intended actually happen’ To be completely con-
‘gruent,all the intended antecedents, transactions,
and outcomes would have to occur.
‘StutMebeam’s Context, Input,
Process, Product Model
Perhaps the most important contribution to a de-
cision-management-orented approach to educa-
tional evaluation has been that presented by
Daniel Stufflebeam. His approach to evaluation
is recognized as the CIPP (context, input, pro-
cess, product). model This comprehensive
model considers evaluation to be a continuing
process.
Information is provided to management for
the purpose of decision making. It isa three-step
process: delineating the information necessary
for collection, obtaining the information, and
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