Week Three

1.      All too often instruction is developed with little thought as to how evaluation of learning or the effectiveness of the instruction will take place. When evaluation is considered on the front end of the instructional design process, it is often limited to evaluating whether the instructional design is more effective than traditional methods.

For this week's reflection activities, I would like for you to concentrate on the following:

Chapter 10 discusses evaluation in instructional design and provides you with two evaluation models, the CIPP and Kirkpatrick models for evaluation. Search for at least two other models used for evaluation and summarize these models. Describe how you would use them to evaluate your instruction.

Reflect on what other questions that instructional design evaluation should address besides whether the instructional design leads to comparable amounts of learning and learner satisfaction as traditional methods. What else would be useful to know?

Chapter's 12 & 13 focus on project management and how to manage projects when resources are scarce. You have been assigned to develop a series of professional development sessions focusing on technology use in the classroom for teachers during a time of economic decline. How will you use Situational Leadership to facilitate this project and manage scarce resources? 

 

      1. Patton’s Utilization Focused Evaluation: This evaluation method touches on the importance of designing evaluations for instruction that make sure they are useful to the information. The result of this type of evaluation helps the person doing the assessment to be user specific instead, of someone that is not directly connected to make a judgment. I would use this type of evaluation in a classroom activity that allows the students to be part of a big company decision and the outcome would have dire consequences. An activity such as this will allow students to get an understanding of why decisions are not that simple when making decisions when you are i.e.: principal, city council member.

Kemp’s Instructional design model: Kemp shows a continuous cycle in the development process that can be used to produce reliable learning practices. The nine key elements that make up the cycle go in sequence to help build up every section of the design model using critical thinking tactics. This model should be used with larger groups and must be constantly going to have optimal effectiveness. An activity for the Kemp model would probably be more effective with test scores or the effectiveness of different methods of attacking problem areas within testing as a group to improve scores. A regular classroom setting would be a little bit harder to get efficient results.

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      2. What other questions should instructional design evaluation address?? I believe a few questions that should not be left out are:

What specific data gathering instruments may or may not be used to validate the information needed to complete the assessment?

Is there a time frame for each section of the assessment or is it continuous throughout the duration of the objective?

What audience or superior will need this information to improve their program?

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           3.   Project management with scarce resources must have a leader that is willing to go the extra mile to make sure the project is a success. Here are a few things that I would do for my team.

a)      Take charge on the importance of the scarce resources and the importance of no waste.

b)      Break up tasks by interests and ability to save time.

c)       Make sure all pro’s, cons, barriers, future outlook, and past failures are on the table so that everyone will be involved and can have a personal connection with the importance of the project.

d)      Open door, clear communication for the smallest ideas and questions to keep the positive energy flow throughout the project.

e)      Show personally as the leader how much you know and how close you are to the task so that everyone else will be willing to go the extra mile for you as their leader and for the team.