Models of evaluation in educational technolgy: Draw with appleworks

DRAW WITH APPLEWORKS

Done by:Hiba Ali AL-JulandaniTamadher AL-Za’abi

Outline

Project Overview project title Targeted audience Project Language Project aim

Evaluation Aim Operational definition Evaluation Questions Evaluation Methodology

Sample Instruments

Overview

Project title: Draw with AppleWorks

Targeted audience: grade 5 & 6

Project language: Arabic

Project aim: providing grade students with some tutorials on how to use drawing applications of AppleWorks software.

Project structure

AppleWorks Tutorials AppleWorks Tutorials

Lesson1introduces the learner to the

apple work environment

Lesson1introduces the learner to the

apple work environment

Lesson4

Demonstrates the clipart

library

Lesson4

Demonstrates the clipart

library

Lesson 2

Demonstrates toolbarelements

Lesson 2

Demonstrates toolbar

elements

Lesson3how to use

some options from arrange

menu and edit menu .

Lesson3how to use

some options from arrange

menu and edit menu .

Each lesson consists of:

Lesson prerequisites Lesson objectives Lesson Content Activities Test

األول الدرس

الثاني الدرس

الثالث الدرس

الرابع الدرس

التالي

المصممون

تعليمات

الدرس األول

إبدأ

االنشطة

برنامج في مهرج وجه ترسم كيف تعرف ؟ Apple Workهل

التطبيق طريقة لتعرف هنا اضغط

الرئيسية

أختبرني

Project Evaluation

Bate’s ACTIONS model will be used to evaluate this project.

The focus will be on the project usability aspect.

Evaluation Aim

This evaluation research aims at examining the usability of the course from the perspective of both; the user and the instructional designer.

Operational definition

Usability in this evaluation means that how much the course is easy to use by the user. Usability concerns about page design (navigation, visual design, learner guidance, content presentation).

Evaluation Questions

Q1. For which extent the user is satisfied with the course usability in terms of navigation, learner guidance and visual design?

Q2. For which extent the course is useable in terms of navigation, learner guidance and visual design and content presentation from the perspective of the instructional designers?

Evaluation Methodology

Evaluation Methodology Sample

Students from grade 5 & 6. Instructional designers from CET and ILT

department. Instrument

Q1. For which extent the user is satisfied with the course usability in terms of navigation, learner guidance and visual design?

To answer this question interviews will be conducted with the students.

Q2. For which extent the course is useable in terms of navigation, learner guidance and visual design from the perspective of the instructional designer?

To answer this question criteria checklist

will be given to instructional designers.

Q1 instrument

The interviews will be conducted after allowing learners to use the program for one week.

The interview contains some open ended questions about the course usability in terms of navigation, learner guidance and visual design. Questions are taken from Nieleson’ Protocol for heuristic evaluation of e-learning programs.

Heuristic evaluation is the most popular of the usability inspection methods. Heuristic evaluation is done as a systematic inspection of a user interface design for usability. The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find the usability problems in the design so that they can be attended to as part of an iterative design process.

Q2 instrument

* The checklist is developed by supervisors of the King Hamad’s Schools of the Future Project, Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

* This checklist is used to evaluate teachers projects that participate in the competition of the King Hamad’s Schools of the Future Project.

Reference

King Hamad’s schools for the Future Project. Available at: www.moe.gov.bh/khsfp/contest/evaluation%20criteria%20arabic-final1.pdf

Reeves & others.(2001). “Usability and Instructional Design Heuristics for E-Learning Evaluation”. Retrieved 25 February. Available at:

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/19/c8.pdf