ABC's... as easy as 123?
I thought that the ABC’s was not a good representation of a real appraisal situation. The ABC’s measured the quality of teaching, but it did not measure true effectiveness. The point of the exercise was to have three people teach a lesson, without any specific instruction, and get critiqued based on how well they taught the lesson or how effective they were. The only problem with this idea is that effectiveness is only measured by how well a certain goal is met. The goal of this exercise was to teach people the alphabet, yet they already knew their ABC’s. How is possible to measure effectiveness if the original goal has already been met (hopefully in kindergarten, or earlier since these are Case students). I think it would have been better to teach a new lesson, something that no one has ever heard of, even a completely fabricated idea. This would have been a good measure of effectiveness because the ultimate goal, knowledge, would have truly been met.
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