A Process Model for Developing High Quality Educational Interventions

Abstract

Proposed in this paper is a process model tailored to guide the development of high quality educational interventions aimed at improving the quality of education in schools.  The process model proposed here is developed on the basis of a study conducted in forty-five Zimbabwean primary schools, four universities, six teachers' colleges and in district and provincial education offices involving one hundred and eleven participants on the development of a school self-evaluation (SSE) framework, a specific educational intervention to be used to evaluate the quality of education in schools. The five-step process model presented here is based on design research, a systematic study of designing, developing and evaluating education interventions used as the research design for the study. Findings point to the need for a process model for developing educational interventions. The main conclusion is that, a process model for developing high quality educational interventions is an essential step towards providing a science base for educational interventions and how they should be developed in order to effectively address various educational problems.