EbaeBaselineModelsConcernsQuestions

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Baseline Models Concerns and Questions

• “I have great difficulty with the whole idea of baseline program models. In its most simplistic definition, I get the concept, but when I start to think about the details it becomes a problematic notion. Given the vast range of programs, how many models should there be? If the models are made too general to decrease the number, they aren’t very useful. If they are tailored to the multitude of program contexts, formats, purposes and goals they probably become too numerous to be useful. Furthermore, it seems that by the time baseline program models have been established, using the process outlined in the white paper, we would be well down the line toward identifying evidenced based practice. This isn’t a bad thing, but it makes me wonder if the process outlined isn’t too redundant and overlapping. Is there a way simultaneously to begin establishing an evidence-based system while identifying program models? Can we be maximally efficient here? Just to complicate things further, I feel that baseline program elements number 2 is hugely broad and would have to be broken up into smaller elements to be useful.” [Message 56, Part One]

• “…I would not use the goals learners state as parameters for determining baseline components or program models either. All I'm saying is that I think it's not the person we need to look at, but why they come…” [Message 17, Part Two]