One of the weaknesses in th~ evaluation of an instructional program for socialstudies in junior secondary sChools at present is that evaluation activities are onlybased on the assessment of the?tudents' lea,rni!lg qutputs.Previous instructionalactivities receive less attentionin evaluation activities. In adciition, tIle assessmentof socialstudy learning is also still limited to that of academic skills and has' notincluded the assessment of per~onal skills aIld sOFi,al .. skills, which become thetarget of social studies. To get Il1.ore complete information about the efficacy of aninstructional program for ,social studies, it is necessary to utilize· an. evaluationmodel thathas more comprehensive coverage. The model of Evaluation ofInstructionalQuality and Output (EIQO) is one of the alternatives which can beused to evaluate an instructional program for social studies. The components ofEIQO include the assessmentof... the instructional process in terllls of theinstructional.qualityand the assessment of the learning results ·.in terms ·of theinstructionaloutput. The former covers the assessment of the teacher classroomperformance, instructional facilities,classroom ,climate, student ·attitudes andstudent motivation to learn.. The latter covers the assessment of students' academicskills, personal skills and social skills
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