Eisner's connoisseurship model is an approach to curriculum evaluation that emphasizes qualitative appreciation. It focuses on getting details of what happens in the classroom through knowledgeable evaluation. The model believes an expert evaluator can determine a curriculum's success using skills and experience in combination with appreciation and criticism. Criticism in this context refers to saying useful things about complex topics to help others see what they may have missed before. An eclectic approach to evaluation develops criteria to assess models sensitively while considering client concerns and unintended effects. It gives homeschooling parents control but some worry children may not learn enough or at the right time for testing.

1. Chapter 7:
Curriculum Evaluation
EISNER’S CONNOISSEURSHIP MODEL
(Elliot Eisner, 1975)

2. Elliot W. Eisner
-Arts Eduacation
-Educational
Evaluation
-Educational
Imagination

3. The arts teach
children that
problem can
have more than
one solution
And that
question can
have more than
one answer
ELLIOT EISNER
MARCH1933- JANUARY 2014

4. EisnEr’s connoissEurship
model
♦ An approach to evaluation,
emphasize to
qualitative appreciation.
♦ According to him it is important
to get into the details of what
is actually happening inside
the classroom.

5. ♦ Eisner’s developed and proposed
the Connoisseurship model on the
belief that knowledgeable or expert
evaluator can determine whether a
particular curriculum program has
been successful using a combination
of skills and experience.

6. Connoisseurship Criticism.

7. Connoissership
● is the art of appreciation.
● Recognizing and
appreciating

8. Criticism
Is an art of saying useful things
about complex. This type of
thinking has a varied
expectations, goals and hopes for
student, requires creativity
exploration or investigation and
helping others to see what they
might not have seen before.

9. Aspect of Criticism
● Descriptive aspect - Is an attempt to
characterize and portray the relevant
qualities of education life –
● Interpretative aspect - enlighten the
rules, and the regularities,
● Evaluative aspect - the underlying
architecture. Where judgments are made in
an effort to improve the educational
processes, it present a better argument.
Or proper evaluation of results.

10. ECLECTIC
APPROACH

11. ECLECTIC APPROACH
Eclectic
-wide–ranging
-broad

12. Eclectic Approach
♦ Determining client
concerns,

13. Eclectic Approach
Assessing
opportunity
cost,

14. Eclectic Approach
Being sensitive to
unintended effects

15. Eclectic Approach
♦ Developing a set of
criteria that can be
use in assessing and
developing an
evaluation model.

16. Advantage of
Eclectic Approach
The homeschooling parents have
full control over their children’s
educational program.

17. Disadvantage of Eclectic
Approach
Some parents might worry that
their children will not learn
enough, or that they will not learn
the right things at the right time,
especially when state regulations
require state mandated testing.