Descriptive evaluation of the primary schools: an Overview

Abstract

Evaluating the educational activities and the students’ progress is one of the major purposes of all educational systems. In the same line, this article describes the descriptive evaluation and judgments about the value of the utility goals, designs, implementations, and the results to conduct appropriate decision making to serve the needs of not only the learners but also the society. Descriptive methods in evaluation are concerned with changes in attitudes and behaviors of the students in order to create high amount of interest and motivation in the students. To this end, teachers are required to be familiar with the description and evaluation of teaching techniques. Accordingly, they can identify the entry behavior of the learners based on the diagnostic evaluation. Research strategies and objectives expressed in this paper describe the evaluation and application of the direct consequences of the strengths and shortcomings and limitations of descriptive evaluation.

Keywords: evaluation, evaluation training, evaluation description