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CAPE Evaluation Framework

Overview

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

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Background & Foundation

 

 

Different Methods and Measures

Method
Advantages
Disadvantages
Surveys
Mail
  • Can survey many people
  • Not time-consuming
  • Relatively inexpensive
  • Everyone gets the same instruement
  • Objective Interpretation
  • Difficult to get much detail
  • Sometimes difficult to get correct addresses
  • May be problems with interpreting questions
  • Sometimes a problem getting surveys completed and returned
Group- Administered
  • Can survey many peopleNot time-consumingRelatively inexpensiveEveryone gets the same instruement
  • Objective Interpretation
  • Difficult to get much detail
  • May be problems with interpreting questions
Telephone
  • Able to ask for more detail when needed
  • Everyone gets the same instruement
  • Sometimes difficult reaching people
  • Lack of anonymity
Interview
  • Researcher can know how people are interpreting questionsAble to ask for more detail when needed
  • Provides detailed data
  • Time-consuming because of time, can limit sample sizeSubjective interpretationCan be expensive
  • Can be difficult to analyze
Focus Group
  • Researcher can know how people are interpreting questions
  • Able to ask for more detail when needed
  • Able to interview multiple people at one time, thus more cost effective than individual interviews
  • Responses from one person provide stimulous for other people
  • Group setting may inhibit some individuals from providing informationSometimes hard to coordinate multiple schedules
  • Responses from one person provide stimulous for other people
Observation
  • Objective interpretation
  • Low burden for people providing data
  • Time-consumingSome items are not observableCan be expensive
  • Participant behavior may be affected by observer presence
Student Records
  • Objective interpretation
  • Low burden for people providing data
  • Relatively inexpensive
  • May not correspond to exactly what researcher wantsMay be incomplete or require additional interpretation
  • May need special permission to use
Collection of Materials
  • Objective interpretationLow burden for people providing data
  • Relatively inexpensive
  • May not correspond to exactly what researcher wants
  • May be incomplete or require additional interpretation
  

Taken from: Quinones, S. & Kirshstein, R. (1998). An Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.