[Eng1508] question

[dworden at mail.wsu.edu]

My question is a bit complicated (and imperfectly formed) so please bear
with me.

In bureaucracies, individual evaluations often occur within evaluation
hierarchies.  In the corporate world, for example, an employee may be
evaluated and the results of that evaluation are then factored into an
evaluation of the department which in turn becomes part of the evaluation
of a branch or company.  So how can fourth generation evaluation be
implemented at the “lower levels” of this hierarchy?  Here is another,
more specific, example.  In his class, Bill used some of the techniques of
fourth generation evaluation to evaluate his students writing.  To make
the evaluation intelligible for the school (since it will function as part
of the larger evaluation of the student in the form of transcripts) he
then had to translate the “results” of a fourth generation approach into
the more traditional form of letter grades.  Is translating “results”
garnered through fourth generation evaluation into more recognized
(traditionalist) forms an acceptable move for a fourth generation
evaluator to make?


I hope that makes sense to someone out there.  Let me know if it is
completely unintelligible.

Dorothy