{"id":10476,"date":"2013-02-20T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:33:08","slug":"sunday-school-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/sunday-school-evaluation.htm","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Effectiveness of Sunday School Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FeedbackSomeone asked for some specific questions to get feedback from both students and teachers about Sunday School in a comment on “So, You Were Asked to be the Sunday School Superintendent<\/a>“. I knew my response would be lengthy and pertinent to many Sunday School Superintendents so I made it into a post.<\/p>\n

I’m keeping this general enough to be broadly used. Simply tailor the questions to the age you teach and your particular situation.<\/p>\n

Assessments of Sunday School could get detailed in measuring the effectiveness of the curriculum, the classroom space or facilities, teachers, and the like. You will find some assessment tools in the Christian Education Files<\/a> resource on those areas. What I’m providing in this post are questions measuring the overall effectiveness of your Sunday School ministry.<\/p>\n

The questions about Sunday School will measure the following:<\/h2>\n

1) The purpose for your Sunday School versus people’s perceptions of its purpose<\/p>\n

The responses to this question should help you determine if you are adequately communicating and\/or fulfilling the purpose. If not, you need to determine steps you can take to: 1) make sure your purpose is what it should be, 2) better communicate why you have a Sunday School, and 3) train leaders, teachers, and other Sunday School workers to better work toward that purpose.<\/p>\n

2) The strengths and weaknesses of your Sunday School ministry<\/p>\n

The responses to these questions should help you know what you should keep doing and in what ways you need to improve. You might not be able to act on every idea but you should at least prayerfully consider what you can do differently as a result of what was shared. Improvements could be made immediately or turned into long-term goals. But, asking for feedback is only beneficial if you plan to change where you can.<\/p>\n

3) The effectiveness of your Sunday School ministry<\/p>\n

The responses to these questions should help you determine if you are utilizing this program of the church to its maximum potential. The questions provided are thus divided into four areas in which Sunday School can be beneficial<\/a>: 1) spiritual growth, 2) reaching out to the unsaved, 3) fellowship, and 4) assimilation.<\/p>\n

As in all you do, make sure to embed this whole process of evaluating your Sunday School\u00a0 in prayer. Ask for wisdom in drafting the specific questions you should use. Trust God to guide students in honestly responding. Pray God shows you how you should use the results of this survey.<\/p>\n

Questions to evaluate your program’s effectiveness:<\/h2>\n

Under each of the areas you will find questions for students and then for teachers as they will be coming at it from different perspectives so\u00a0 make two separate forms. The questions are close enough that it should help you see if there is a gap between what teachers think is happening and feedback from student realities. In most cases their responses should also provide some suggestions of what you can do to bridge that gap.<\/p>\n

1) The purpose of Sunday School<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Use the same question for both students and teachers:<\/p>\n