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IDE 641

Techniques in Educational Evaluation

I learned the basic concepts and procedures for conducting evaluations. This course presented step-by-step guidelines and other resources for planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating program-level evaluations. I worked collaboratively with my team to systematically design an evaluation plan.

Courses

Projects

Logic Model (Infographic)

In this logic model assignment, my partner and I included several components, such as resources, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact. A logic model is a systematic way to analyze, visualize, and communicate your evaluation context with stakeholders and evaluation team.

Educational Website Evaluation Report

In this group project, we modified Harmon and Reeves (1998) evaluation form, applied it, and proposed revisions for the websites we have chosen.

Formative Evaluation Report

Our team proposed one potential topic for this formative evaluation project. We worked collaboratively to conduct one expert review and two one-to-one user evaluations. Then, we reported the data analysis results and revision suggestions through this paper.

Summative Evaluation Report

With the same team members from FE project, we worked together for creating a summative evaluation plan with the same project topic we have worked on. With our experience in formative evaluation, logic model, and communication with the stakeholders, we planned a brief summative evaluation.

My Experience

Before we were assigned to groups, determining the evaluability and feasibility of an instructional material was an overwhelming task for me because I first had to possess the insight of the required course readings and my chosen instructional material to be evaluated.

When I chose the project topic that was not in my area of knowledge, it was a daunting task to determine which instructional materials are of utmost importance. Significant challenges that I, and my team, faced were tight schedules and short project deadlines as we often required more time. By the collaborative effort of our team and after receiving timely feedback and guidance from the professor, we were able to narrow the scope of the instructional material to focus on one aspect of the evaluation. From this experience, I learned to take these restrictions into consideration when determining the scope of any evaluation.

It is essential to understand the rationale behind developing an evaluation plan, the key elements that should be included, and the steps required in developing it. By identifying evaluation questions early in the process, we can be prepared to design tools, instruments, and methodologies required to gather the needed information. The questions, however, may require revisions every now and then depending on the status of the project. If you don’t use the right data collection methods, you don’t understand how to properly and correctly identify data, you don’t have a thorough understanding of outputs and outcomes, then you won’t have an effective or positive evaluation experience.

Overall, this course and my experience in group and individual projects provided me the knowledge of basic concepts and procedures for conducting evaluations, which focuses primarily on program-level evaluations.