Elementary - Donzella Manuel Week 11

Revise Technology Plan /  Design and Conduct Summative Evaluation

1. Describe the purposes for and various stages of formative evaluation of technology plan.

The purposes for a formative evaluation of technology plan is to allow you to gather feedback on whether you are meeting your goals and objectives during the planning and development of your technology plan rather than waiting until the technology plan is complete. Formative evaluations assess what works and what does not work for your technology plan.

There are four stages of formative evaluation:

Stage 1 -  Expert review(s) / Internal review (Technology Plan Committee)
The Technology Plan Committee review the technology plan for accuracy and completeness.

Stage 2 -  One-to-One evaluation
The designer works with individual learners to obtain data to revise the technology plan. The learner at a time reviews the content of the lessons using technology and give comments upon it. The purpose is to identify problems in the instruction, such as typographical errors, unclear sentences, poor or missing directions, etc.

Stage 3 - Small group evaluation / Tutorial and small-group tryouts
During small group evaluation of 8-20 learners/teachers (target population), the evaluator tries out the instruction with the group of learners and records their performances and comments. The output of a small group evaluation is a revised instructional lesson based upon time, performance and attitude.

Stage 4 - Field trial / Field test / Operational tryout
During a field test instruction is evaluated in the same environments in which it will be used when it is finished. The goal of the field trial is effective instruction the yields desired levels of learner achievement and attitudes and that functions as intended in the learning setting.
          

2. Describe your instruments used in a formative evaluation.

Formative evaluation relies on many of the same techniques that other forms of assessment use. Evaluation instruments that are used for a school/district technology plan is surveys, interviews, monitoring/observation, reports, logs. The instruments I used in the formative evaluation for my technology plan is survey/questionnaire, interviews, log and monitoring/observation. 

3. Collect data according to a formative evaluation plan for a given set of technology plan or instructor presentation.

 The accountability methods and measures that will be used to evaluate the extent to which activities are effective are:

Technology
Integrating technology into curriculum and instructions, I used a survey/questionnaire, interviews monitoring/observation, and a log to collect data during the formative evaluation stage.

Funding
A carefully developed technology plan will help to make sure that my district have secured the resources needed. The budget must include estimated costs with available and potential funding sources for all areas addressed in the plan. I used monitoring/observation of the elementary schools technology budget during the formative evaluation stage.

Management
Increasing the ability of teachers to teach and learn technology with professional development, I used a survey, monitoring/observation and a log to collect data during the formative evaluation stage.


References:

Dick, W. and Carey, L. (1996). The Systematic design of instruction, 4th ed. New York: Harper Collins Publishing.

TPESC. (n.d.). Technology Plan Components - Evaluation. Retrieved March 3, 2012, from http://tpesc.esc12.net/eplan/Evaluation.html