Evaluation for Educational Technologists
Course Description
An overview of classic and contemporary theories of learning and their applications in educational technology and emerging orientations; implications for practice. Explores foundations, history, perspectives, and literature in the field. Enables students to think more critically about their efforts and career goals.
In this course we..
- Defined a number of terms related to the field of evaluation and research and applied them to various projects.
- Described what is meant by evaluation and its role in educational technology.
- Discussed the rationale for conducting an evaluation.
- Identified the role of an audience for evaluation.
- Described an "Evaluator's Program Description" and the uses for one.
- Described similarities and differences between evaluation models, their components, and how they contrasted with research models.
- Discussed types and levels of data as well as data collection tools.
- Discussed the issue of sampling as it applies to evaluation.
- Described the rationale for and the components of an evaluation report.
- Selected appropriate evaluation strategies and procedures for a given educational program or instructional product.
