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Overview of Evaluation Methods
Lets us review what we have done in this course so far. The objectives
are written, the content is selected and sequenced, and the instructional
methods are chosen. Now the evaluation instrument(s) must be
selected. It is important to remember that any evaluation instrument
chosen must reflect the course or lesson objectives as well as
how the content was taught. For example, if the objectives uses
the verb "list" then the evaluation instrument chosen
must ask learners to list. There are many instruments that can
do this including an essay, short answer, and rearranging lists.
Choosing the instrument will depend on a number of factors -
these are discussed in this section.
There are numerous evaluation instruments. They can be divided
into formal and informal; and diagnostic, formative, and summative
and these will be discussed here in this section.
The following objectives for this section are:
- Learners will become familiar with a variety of evaluation
instruments
- Learners will be able to classify a number of evaluation strategies
- Learners will be able to describe the relationship between
objectives and evaluation
There are five parts to evaluation instruments. They are:
- Introduction to evaluation instruments
- Kinds of evaluation
- Classifying evaluation instruments
- The selection of evaluation instruments
- The relationship between evaluation instruments and objectives
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