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Retro Evaluation

Retro Evaluation. Mimi Recker Jim Dorward mimi.recker@usu.edu. Evaluation Objectives. Two contexts: IA and TPD Developmental: Usability and utility Impact on teachers’ knowledge, attitude, beliefs (KAB) (Impact on students).

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Retro Evaluation

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  1. Retro Evaluation Mimi Recker Jim Dorward mimi.recker@usu.edu

  2. Evaluation Objectives • Two contexts: IA and TPD • Developmental: Usability and utility • Impact on teachers’ knowledge, attitude, beliefs (KAB) • (Impact on students)

  3. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the nation’s free online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics http://nsdl.org/ Instructional Architect is an NSDL service that allows teachers to easily package online resources from a variety of sources for their students. http://ia.usu.edu/

  4. Teacher Professional Development • Improve PD design elements • Evaluate ‘teachers as designers’ • (Impact on students)

  5. Developmental (iterative) Methods • Lit reviews • Needs assessments • Expert reviews • Focus groups • Case studies • Surveys • Logic model

  6. Evaluation Framework A logic model

  7. Example PD Evaluation

  8. Toward Evaluating Impact

  9. Some Lessons • Importance of theory (for research and evaluation) … but they’re not the same thing. • Conducting evaluation in phases (development, implementation, dissemination) • Importance of mixed-methods, but … • Challenges of informing development,triangulating, and finding complementarity across evaluation activities • Importance of allocating funds and people to evaluation early on (mentor and student)

  10. An Evaluation Culture? • Is it critical NSDL component? • Distinguish between internal and external? • Emphasize rigorous designs? • Sharing or reinvention? • Allocate different funds for different phases? • What % of budget goes to evaluation? 5%? 8%? 20%?

  11. URLs • Instructional Architect • ia.usu.edu • Evaluation materials (surveys, logic model, rubrics) • dlconnect.usu.edu • >> Click on ‘Researchers’

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