Internal monitoring and evaluation of in-service teacher training programs

Abstract

In-service teacher training (INSET) is a potent way of improving teaching and learning. To fulfill this potential, training programs need to be of a high quality. Although quality assurance may vary across different educational systems, monitoring and evaluation are commonly seen as powerful tools for assuring quality in education. Monitoring can be defined as continuous data-gathering on ongoing activities or processes. Evaluation, on the other hand, is a judgment about the level of completion of certain standards, usually standards of merit and worth. Although evaluation might be understood as an informal reasoning, here we have in mind the kind of judgment that is more formal and systematic and based on some sort of research.