Abstract
The article focuses on the periods of program and school evaluation in particular. The article traces school evaluation through various periods. These periods are: Age of originality (1444-1700), Age of reform (Prior 1900), Efficiency and testing (1900-1930), Tylerian period (1930-1945), Age of innocence (1946-1957), Age of development (1958-1972), Age of professionalism (1973-1983) and Age of expansion and integration (1984-2000). From these ages, the article is able to identify as to how Whole-school Evaluation in South Africa has been able to draw important lessons towards ensuring quality assurance in education
Highlights
An understanding of school evaluation requires clarification of what is meant by evaluation as a concept, as well as an understanding of program evaluation as a field
The external Whole-school Evaluation (WSE) process evaluates whether the teachers are developed through an integrated quality management system (IQMS) process
This is done in order to ensure that they are ready to deliver the curriculum of the day
Summary
According to Hogan (2010, p. 3), the historical development of evaluation is difficult, if not impossible, to describe due to its informal utilization by humans for thousands of years. 4) argue that performance-based pay is consistent with widely held beliefs that employees should be rewarded on effort, and in line with theories of human motivation which contend that effective motivation is predicated on a close relationship between performance and rewards This type of evaluation was adopted by the United Kingdom and its colonies, and the United States, it was abandoned in the 1920s The reform from qualitative to quantitative assessments has played an important role in the history of program evaluation since this age. Contrasted to Joseph Rice in the age of reform, the Tylerian approach, according to Rice (1897 and 1914), as cited by Sou In the age of innocence, the Tylerian approach was used extensively to train teachers in test development. Schools know exactly the expectations of WSE, because each area for evaluation (AFE) is criteria guided
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