Evaluation Framework

1. Introduction: How to Use These Resources
2. Getting Started: Planning for Evaluation
3. Theory: Explaining How Your Project Works
4. Outcomes: Goals and Objectives; and Their Relationship to Strategies
5. The Plan: Basic Components
6. Data Sources: Some Examples
7. Implementation: Putting the Evaluation to Work
8. The Report: Communicating the Results
9. Examples: Real Evaluation Plans
10. Resources: Index of Materials Supporting Evaluation

Professional Development Model

Background & Foundation

Evaluation Committee Composition Matrix

To create and conduct your technology evaluation, you need a committee composed of educational stakeholders who will actively work to help create the evaluation. Remember:

• You will need committee members who represent all aspects of your school community. This means teachers (from a variety of grades and/or subject areas), administrators, parents, community members (e.g., businesspeople), and perhaps students.
• Do not load your committee with figureheads who are not willing to actually work on the plan.
• The evaluation process contains many different tasks. You need writers, curriculum people, infrastructure people, people who are good with budgets, and policy people.
• The commitment to be a part of the technology-evaluation committee is not a short-term commitment. A formative evaluation by definition is ongoing and iterative. The committee members should be willing to assist in you school's technology-evaluation efforts long after the data are collected and reports are written.

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Taken from Planning into Practice

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