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Evaluating the Effectiveness of ICT Innovations on Student Learning
Dr Rob Phillips
Monday September 16th 2002
Moat House Hotel, York
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
1. to disseminate the results of an Australia-wide staff development
project in evaluation;
2. to describe the model of evaluation developed through this project, and
to explain its benefits;
3. 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 has been 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:
1. it presumes that evaluation will occur in each of the major phases of an
educational development project (design, development, implementation, and
institutionalisation);
2. it focuses attention on three aspects of learning:
 the learning environment (where people learn, or the ICT innovation);
 the learning process (how people learn)
 the learning outcome (what people learn)
3. it encourages evaluators to frame appropriate and answerable evaluation
questions;
4. 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.
Registration details and form from:
http://www.ltsn.ac.uk:98/genericcentre/events/event20020916.asp
Closing date for registration: Friday 6th September 2002
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