The Determining Instructional Purposes Training
Package Evaluation
Submitted to: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development
Submitted by: Chip Flemmer,
Consulting Firm CEO
We at the Consulting Firm of Flemmer & Associates consider it an honor to have received the request from the Far West Laboratory to bid on the opportunity to conduct an evaluation of the Determining Instructional Purposes Training Program. In this proposal we will be working within the requested dates of May 1st and December 31st of 2009 to conduct a thorough and highly informative summative evaluation that you will certainly be able to use in determining whether to continue printing and marketing the units or to cease in distributing them.
Program
Description
Far
West Laboratory has created a training package for school administrators as
well as graduate students in the field of educational administration with the
purpose of gaining skills related to planning effective school programs. There are three units each having a certain
number of modules encompassed within the unit. The modules contain reading materials that are related to the skills
which are taught in the unit. Unit 1
deals with Setting Goals and has four modules. Unit 2 is Analyzing Problems and has six modules. Unit 3 is Deriving Objectives and has four
modules.
Evaluation Method
We would like to
take your program and evaluate it from four different perspectives in an
attempt to give you a well-rounded evaluation and provide you with feedback
from different, but all highly qualified points of view. Our goal is to find out the overall
effectiveness of your program and we intend to explore it through the
following:
·
Five current
administrators will assist us in evaluating the program through a written
summary along with being available to your Far West Laboratory for phone
interviews about their findings.
·
Five college
professors in the field of curriculum development will be receiving all the
units of the program to review and analyze. The professors will be completing a survey once they have thoroughly
examined the materials and will be providing feedback on the program’s learning
objectives and the overall quality of the program’s materials.
·
Ten graduate
school students from an educational administration program will participate in
all three units as part of a six day summer training program. This trial run will give us feedback from ten
well-qualified analysts as to how they felt the program was designed and
implemented. We will be creating DVD’s
for you to view in which the ten students will be interviewed after going
through the program.
·
The perhaps 20
school districts that have purchased the units will be asked to complete an
online survey about how they have used the program and to what extend they found
it to be effective. We seek their
attitudes and opinions of the program.
Our goal for this
evaluation is to provide you with quality information which will help you in
determining whether to continue printing and marketing the units, whether or
not to modify the units, or whether or not to disband producing the units all
together.
Task Schedule
May 1, 2009 Introductory Meeting with FWL to
discuss the proposal and timeline.
May 2, 2009 Educational Department of our
Consulting Firm will send out
online surveys to the school districts that have already used
the materials.
May 4, 2009 Distribute materials to all outside
participants for their review.
May 5, 2009 We will call all districts that have already used the materials to let them know that an online survey has been sent to them to complete.
June 7-11, 2009 Meet with all parties involved to discuss
materials and any surveys that need to be completed.
June 15-16, 2009 Graduate Students Program Simulation: Unit
1
June 17-18, 2009 Graduate Students Program Simulation: Unit
2
June 22-23, 2009 Graduate Students Program Simulation: Unit 3
June 24-25, 2009 Graduate Student Surveys, Summaries and
Video Conferences
July 2, 2009 Publish DVD’s of training
simulation and opinions from graduate students and provide copies
to FWL.
July 12, 2009 Graduate Student Surveys
are due to our offices for review.
August 1, 2009 Written summary from administrators due
to our offices.
August 21, 2009 Second meeting with all parties involved
in order to gather all
information and decide if any further data collection is necessary.
December 31, 2009 Final Draft of Evaluation will be completed and
submitted to FWL.
Qualification
Discussion
The Consulting
Firm of Flemmer & Associates has been internationally recognized as an
Excellence in Evaluation Award Winner for the past six years. The company has been working in evaluation
for corporations, educational agencies, as well as government departments since
1973. Should you have any reservations in our proposal or company we would be more than happy to provide you with an extensive list of satisfied corporations, small busineeses as well as numerous schools and educational services to serve as references. We desire your business and put our heart and soul into making your evaluation a reflection of the positive evaluation we desire in our services.
Chip Flemmer has
been running the company for the past seven years. He graduated from Boise State University with
a BA in Statistics and a MA in Educational Administration. Flemmer will be in charge of your project and
have the help of several highly qualified colleagues. He will be hands-on throughout the process and bring aboard all the experts necessary to produce the highest level of evaluation possible for you.
·
Dr. Joan Van
Architect, Superintendent of Schools, Frenchtown, MT.
·
Mr. Art
Vandelay, Principal, Costanza High School, New York, NY.
·
Dr. Martin Van
Nostren, Assistant Superintendent, Cairo, GA.
·
Ms. Harrietta
Lomez, Principal, Southside Junior High, Compton, CA.
·
Dr. Heinrich
M. Neuver, Principal, Capitan Prep School, Spokane, WA.
Five College
Professors with a combined 127 years of evaluation experience.
·
Dr. Sid
Neefus, Curricular Studies, Montana State University.
·
Dr. Aerial
Andrade, Evaluation/Assessment, Baylor University.
·
Dr. Taylor
Tillwiddie, Secondary Curriculum Specialist, Yale University.
·
Dr. Hugh G.
Butts, Research Coordinator, Simon Fraser University.
·
Dr. Paul G.
Lee, Curriculum Development Guru, The SW Northern South Dakota State University
at Cherokee Lake.
Ten Graduate
Students provided by:
·
University of
North Texas, School of Graduate Studies
·
Dallas Baptist
University, College of Educational Studies
·
Texas Women’s
University, Graduate School
Project Costs
Personnel
Expenses
Administrator Stipend $2000 x 5 $10,000
Professor Stipend $2000 x 5 $10,000
Graduate Students $500 x 10 $5,000
Food
Expenses for Simulation Training $1,000
Travel Expenses $10,000
Operation Expenses for Simulation Training $500
Facilities, consulting, supplies, other misc. fees.
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Total
Cost $46,500
Contact Information
(information, links, and email addresses are fictional for this project)
Consulting Firm of Flemmer & Associates
1030 Jerry Jones Blvd.
Irving, TX 75043
214-762-2992 Office
214-762-2995 Fax
Financing Department
Thomas Pennypincher
214-762-2993
Educational Surveys Department
Hal Frownsickle
214-762-2994
Corporate Surveys Department
Les A. Faire
214-762-2996
Faireles@flemmerconsulting.com
24 Hour Customer Service
214-762-2997
800-575-FIRM
