8.Using Educational Technology in Evaluation.ppt

Education

1. Using Educational
Technologies in
Evaluation

2. Educational Technologies
•Search Tools & Electronic Databases.
•Audio Visual Aids
•Hand-held Devices
•Presentation Software
•Interactive Case Modules
•Virtual Classrooms
•Online Evaluation Tools
•Curriculum Management Tools
•Computer-aided Decision making Tools
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3. Why use Technology?
•Interactivity
•Content delivery/revision
•Managing learning and resources
•Collaboration
•Communication
•Sense of cohort
•Variety of teaching and learning
preferences
•Formative and summative assessment
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4. How does this help?
•Allows students more control of their own
learning.
•Allows lecturers to guide more, teach less
•Allow student to build up knowledge, and become
part of the teaching process.
•Can provide some really engaging learning
experiences.
•Teachers can provide “scaffolding” and safety
nets.
•“At risk” students can be identified more.
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5. Computer-aided Education
Possible Advantages
•“Universal” Accessibility
•Removal of Time/Geography Barriers
•Self-directed Education
•Hyperlink Capability
•Standardization of Content
•Ease of Updating Content
•Efficiency in Didactic Instruction
•Efficiency in Course Coordination
•Efficiency in Content Distribution
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6. Computer-aided Education
Possible Disadvantages
•Hardware/Software Requirements
•Bandwidth Requirements
•Technical Maintenance & Support
•Time-Intensive Course Development
•Asynchronous Communication
•Uni-dimensional Communication
•Faculty knowledge Deficit
•Student Knowledge Deficit
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7. Use of Educational Technologies
in Education
•to enable to evaluate, discriminate, and integrate
IT resources in their teaching
•to help students effectively use the online
curriculum and other related material.
•to help students graduate with the IT skills and
competencies needed to meet hiring agency
demands.
•to help students view IT and computer-related
technologies as tools and resources to be used
appropriately to meet curriculum goals.
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8. Use of Educational Technologies
in Education
•use spreadsheets to enter data, compare
data, and represent data graphically.
•make results graphs and trends by using
statistics.
•analyze improvement areas.
•plan to improve and implement.
•again Evaluate
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9. How Student use IT?
•use of web and web evaluation tools
(and software and software evaluation
tools) to determine usefulness and
appropriateness of websites and
software for teaching / learning
environments.
•Integrate (appropriate) IT resources
into instructional materials/activities.
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10. Areas of Evaluation
•Identification of knowledge
•History talking
•Mental status exam
•Oral case presentation
•Record keeping
•Problem solving
•Professional attributes responsibilities
•Self improvement
•Relationships with patients and family
•Relationships with members of the health care team
•Summary comments
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11. Distance Education Assessment
•Assessment based on contributions for group
discussions.
•Tests (automatically handled by computer
programme).
•Term papers (analyzed by professor or assistance)
•Oral or written tests conduced in the presence of
the instructor (some times through video-
conference) or with a remote assistant.
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12. Topics
•Kirkpatrick’s model for evaluation – set of
tools to provide capability to assess
according this model:
–Consensus
–Tracking
–Voting
–Self-evaluation
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13. Kirkpatrick’s Model
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14. Formative Evaluation
•Formative evaluation is important to
make easy for the students not only
inform their opinions and feelings
about how course is going on but see
this contributions being handled and
considered.
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15. Using quiz system
•Teachers may built artifacts and link them.
•CGI allows dynamically building and
editing.
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16. Basic functions included
•Feedback for each alternative
•Indication of correct answer
•Nothing more, just counting incidence of
selections on each alternative
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17. Complementary Tools
•Consensus
•Tracking
•Voting
•Self-evaluation
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18. Tools of consensus
•It allows on time creation of enquete
proposing instigating questions, as well as
the collection and tabulation of responses.
•The tool has the capability to keep track of
each student’s level of contribution to the
discussion as well as enquete responses.
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19. Tracking Tools
•The register of learning activities (accessed
page with dates and time) is important
because it allows the professor to know the
progress of students through the course;
•The collected information will show that
type of access the student has made (visited
units, tools used, etc) as well as the time
spent on it.
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20. Voting Tools
•Aimed to provide conditions for a fast
feedback for the instructor on specific
subjects.
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21. Self-Evaluation Tool
•Allows the dynamic building of enquetes
for self-evaluation by professor and by
students.
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22. Group Activity Handling
•Group activity may give opportunity for
student to present contributions that some
times are relegated to forgetfulness.
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23. Consolidation
•It is also needed a voting system to support
group decision about the consolidated
results from discussion.
–Ordering
–Reordering
–Selecting
–discarding
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24. What was needed?
•Development of applications to handle
participants contributions.
•Provide support for group decision.
•Utilization of contributions that came up
during group activity
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25. Handling group activity results
A set of tools was designed and
developed to support distance
education collaborative work.
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26. Group Activity Results
•Group activity results on a log file
containing interchanged texts (synchronous
or asynchronously) during a group debate.
Example: Using an environment like
palace for chat
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27. Critical Issues….
•Current evaluation practices need
broadening.
•Schools must document and report their
evaluation findings in ways that satisfy
diverse stakeholders’ need to know.
•Everyone must agree on a common
language and standards of practice for
measuring how schools achieve that end.
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