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Measuring Learning: A guidebook for gathering and interpreting evidence
SRI International was commissioned by HP Philanthropy to create an accessible resource to support the evaluation of technology-based course redesign projects. The guidebook is intended to help educators who seek to design and conduct an evaluation of the learning gains they achieve in their own classrooms. It is designed to enable educators to tell a compelling story about their project's early impact, based on "emerging evidence" of both learning gains and fundamental changes to the classroom environment, and pointing to areas for ongoing program improvement.
The guidebook is particularly geared toward higher education STEM faculty in their first year of implementing tablet PCs to catalyze the redesign of teaching and learning. However, because it offers a user-friendly introduction to general evaluation principles and strategies, the guidebook is a useful tool for a wide variety of educators wishing to collect emerging evidence about their technology-enabled learning projects.
The guidebook describes the process of educational evaluation in eight clearly defined steps, provides examples to illustrate each step, includes "To Do" sections where educators can reflect on their own project evaluation, and offers a set of annotated references to more detailed evaluation resources.
This initial version of this guidebook is posted here and will be distributed at the HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference.
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Funders & Clients
HP Philanthropy
Research Areas
Keywords
evaluation research
higher education