Reasons for Evaluation
Within the Social Efficiency ideology, it is essential to assess curricula, learners, and teachers. Key concepts during evaluation are accountability and standards. There are five primary reasons why evaluation is important in the Social Efficiency ideology.
First, educators conceive of themselves as instruments who fulfill the needs of a client. They hold themselves accountable to their clients, and they demonstrate their accountability by evaluating the efforts of curriculum developers and teachers to
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Third, the Social Efficiency conception of causation as deterministic facilitates evaluation. One must simply show absence of behavior, display a stimulus-response linkage, show the stimulus, and show the response to demonstrate that learning took place as the result of a specific intervention. If causation were not so direct and easily analyzable, evaluation would be more difficult.