IP&T
661
Educational Product Evaluation
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Semester
Winter
Introduction to the purposes and methods of evaluating educational products, including strategies for conducting usability evaluations, formative evaluations, summative evaluations, and confirmative evaluations.
Evaluation Issues
Develop an understanding of some philosophical, technical, political, ethical and practical issues typically encountered in evaluating educational evaluands
Evaluation - LDS Context
Explore what evaluation might mean in a Latter-Day Saint Gospel context
Product Evaluation
Articulate how a variety of approaches to product evaluation can influence the design of a product, including usability evaluation, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, and confirmative evaluation.
Practical Applications
Design an evaluative study for an educational product you or someone else has developed.
Metaevaluation
Conduct a meta-evaluation of another product evaluation.