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Evaluating the Effectiveness of ICT Innovations on Student Learning
Dr Rob Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Educational Design at the Teaching and Learning Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia
Venue: Moat House Hotel, York
Date: 16th Septemer
Workshop: 10.00 - 4.00 p.m.
Intended audience: University/College staff interested in evaluating the effectiveness of educational innovations (including the use of new technologies) on student learning; and those interested in developing these skills in others.
Cost: £75 per person (exclusive of VAT)
Objectives
* to disseminate the results of an Australia-wide staff development project in evaluation;
* to describe the model of evaluation developed through this project, and to explain its benefits;
* to assist attendees to apply the model of evaluation in other contexts.
Description
This workshop will provide attendees with information and resources to enable them to plan and carry out an evaluation of the effectiveness of an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) project. It arises from an Australian project aimed at improving the evaluation of student learning in teaching activities supported by ICT. The morning session will focus on what we have learned from the Australian projects and the afternoon workshop an opportunity to design an evaluation for your own students' learning.
The approach taken is based on the Learning-centred Evaluation (LCE) Framework, which has four main characteristics:
* it presumes that evaluation will occur in each of the major phases of an educational development project (design, development, implementation, and institutionalisation);
* it focuses attention on three aspects of learning:
o the learning environment (where people learn, or the ICT innovation);
o the learning process (how people learn)
o the learning outcome (what people learn)
* it encourages evaluators to frame appropriate and answerable evaluation questions;
* it outlines the types of evidence and methods that may be appropriate for each question.
Attendees will work on a case study relevant to the workshop environment. Given one or two broad evaluation questions, attendees will use the LCE Framework as a scaffold to develop specific questions, by breaking down the lifecycle of an educational innovation into phases. The LCE framework will then be used to develop an evaluation matrix, where the specific evaluation questions are matched to sources of data which provide appropriate evidence to answer each of them. The sources of data may be both qualitative and quantitative.
The workshop will conclude with a discussion about gathering and analysing the data.
Closing date for registration: Friday 6th September 2002
For further details please visit the following url: www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/events/event20020916.asp
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