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FAST, Free Online Assessment Tool http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev002 Fast is an online Microsoft Excel based teaching evaluation tool. Tutors develop an online questionnaire of up to 20 questions to determine how students are finding their instruction and course. Students then submit anonymous feedback about their course and/or instructor via the Web. |
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Focus on Virtual Learning Environments http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev023 This FERL Focus Area is designed to help the HE/FE sector make the right decisions with respect to buying, implementing and using a VLE. The website is very comprehensive in its coverage. It includes information and guidance for evaluating learning platforms by providing an evaluation model. 2 practical examples of how organisations might use the model is also given. Advice with accompanying models and case studies is also given in the following areas: purchasing a VLE, staff development, piloting a VLE with your institution, mainstreaming a VLE, and the accompanying administration and implementation necessary to ensure the process is successful. |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev024 "The Flashlight Program aims to help the HE community to assess and improve use of educational technology in a cost effective manner. At present there are over 25 individual tools available on a subscription basis. The program is organised into 8 packages these include the following: Program and organisation development, organising to improve teaching, general assessment toolkits, using data to improve specific activities, rubrics for assessing student work, assessment tutorials, benchmarking programs, a directory of what other HE Institutions are doing, and material to assist lecturing colleagues discover and use the Flashlight tools. In addition to these packages, Flashlight Online is available. This is a Web-based system that allows the user to combine their own survey questions with those of the Flashlight Program." |
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Formative evaluation of Universities ICT Strategies http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev025 The main objective of the CRE (Association of European Libraries) ODL project was the evaluation of university strategies used in European Universities for the use of technology in teaching and learning. This project has closed but a final report is now available which may be of interest. |
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Guidelines for E-Lib Project Evaluation http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev026 "This document provides a guide to developing and implementing evaluation in individual eLib projects. As the advice is quite general it may be applied to any project requiring evaluation activity The guidelines in the report cover, general principles of evaluation design, operational approaches to project evaluation, utilising evaluation outputs, preparing an evaluation plan, technical assistance, and annual reporting. The eLib programme was a strategic initiative that aimed to shape and accelerate the development and uptake of electronic media and network services in UK HE libraries and HEIs. The project ran from 1995 to 2001." |
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LibQual+ (TM): Service Quality Assessment in Research Libraries http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev027 "LibQUAL+(TM) is a research and development project undertaken to define and measure library service quality across institutions and to create useful quality-assessment tools for local planning. The survey tool is web-based LibQUAL+(TM). It uses a scalable web interface and protocol to ask library users about their library service expectations. Survey data are transmitted directly from the central LibQUAL+(TM) server to a database. The data are then analysed and reports that provide information on how users perceive the quality of their library services are generated for the individual libraries. Libraries must register with LibQual+ (TM) to participate in the survey." |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev014 The toolkit is designed to provide useful resources to help select and design assessment projects and tools. The tools and accompanying website were designed for the purpose of encouraging Yale University Library staff to gather data to evaluate services and share experiences in conducting assessment projects. The tools include case studies, samples from assessment projects, focus group and individual group interview material, service quality surveys, interface and usability proformas. |
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A Rubric for Evaluating Web Quests http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev015 This is a tool taken from the Web Quest Website. The rubric has been designed to help with the evaluation of webquests. The website defines a web quest as, 'an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing.' This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. The site also includes a comprehensive additional support material section. Sample webquests included on the site are suitable for ages ranging from 3 to adult in a variety of subject areas. |
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Guidelines for the Design of Educational Software http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev016 The purpose of the guidelines is to promote quality in educational software. They are applicable to educational software for any academic discipline and have been designed with two purposes in mind: 1. Developers can use them to ensure that their products are of high instructional quality during the development and evaluation of their products 2. End users can compare educational software programs with the guidelines to recognize quality products. |
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Digital Library Evaluation: Toward an evolution of concepts http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev017 This is a paper that considers and puts forward a framework for digital library evaluation. The paper also lists criteria for the evaluation of digital libraries and makes suggestions for adaptation of criteria from related evaluation activities. It also considers the levels within which a digital library can be evaluated. |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev018 "Edu-Tools is a website that provides strategic decision making support to help the HE community analyse and compare vendor-produced course management tools and virtual learning environments (VLEs), other software products, student services, and eLearning policies. The site itself is interactive and allows the user to compare products by a variety means. Product comparisons can be made either by comparing the name of the product, by features of the product, by pre-selected group or, all products can be compared by all features. A decision engine is also included. The goal of the decision tool is to provide the user with a rational step-by-step decision making process to assist in selecting a course management system." |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev019 "The Evaluation cookbook provides a practical guide to the evaluation of learning technologies for lecturers. The cookbook includes a wide range of tools in the form of 'recipes' for evaluation methods these include a collection of checklists, concept maps, confidence logs, interviews, focus groups, resource questionnaires. There are sixteen recipes in all and each one includes a brief summary of the recipe, and the processes involved from the design to implementation of the tool. A helpful information section gives practical advice on the various stages of evaluation and working with different groups ie staff and students." |
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Evaluation of Learning Toolkit http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev020 "The Evaluation Toolkit is a system for teachers and lecturers to analyse their teaching methods and mediums for course delivery. It provides a three step model for the process of designing an evaluation, together with resources or activities that support each step. This toolkit is flexible enough to cover a wide variety of evaluation topics such as evaluating a VLE or compiling an evaluation of a project. Previous evaluations compiled by users of the toolkit are also available." |
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Resources for the Evaluation of IT in Teaching and Learning in HE http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev021 "This is the resource page from the ELICT Service (Evaluation of Learning with Information and Communication Technology). The page includes links to downloadable adaptable evaluation instruments that may be used for the evaluation of learning with ICTs. The tools include, questionnaires and confidence logs. The site also outlines the process involved in the planning and implementation of an evaluation and the elements that a prototype evaluation may involve. A useful list of evaluation related links to web journals and ICT evaluation tools are also included." |
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Evaluation of Online Courses: Separating the message from the messenger. http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev022 This paper puts forward a model for conducting formative and summative evaluation of online distance learning courses. The author also emphasises the need for practitioners to separate course evaluation from instructor evaluation with the model he proposes in the paper. |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev030 "The EASEIT-Eng project aimed to assist Engineering academics in selecting computer-based learning (CBL) material, for use in their teaching, that was right for both them and their students. The project: established a standardised evaluation method for Engineering CBL material, evaluated a wide range of existing Engineering CBL material, and developed a freely available Web-delivered database of software evaluations. The EASEIT-Eng evaluation manual handbook details the information required to conduct a software evaluation using EASEIT-Eng protocols. The Manual guides the user through all aspects of the evaluation process including guidance on how to write an evaluation case study. The manual also contains a set of evaluation forms and flow charts describing the evaluation process for the users ease of reference." |
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Evaluating Learning Technology Resources http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev031 This is an LTSN Guide aimed at teaching staff and project managers involved in developing ICT applications. Its focus is planning an evaluation study. |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev032 The mission of this website is to, improve the quality and consistency of evaluations and enhance evaluation capacity through the promotion and use of high-quality checklists targeted to specific evaluation tasks and approaches. The checklist tools have been organised into the following categories: evaluation management, evaluation models, evaluation values and criteria, meta evaluation, and other. The checklists themselves can be applied and used in a variety of evaluation contexts such as designing, budgeting, and assessment. |
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Handbook for Learning-Centred Evaluation of Computer-Facilitated Learning Projects in HE http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev033 The CUTSD Project guided a group of academics through the evaluation of a Computer-facilitated Learning (CFL) project by a process of action inquiry and mentoring. Participants learned to evaluate student learning resulting from the use of their own CFL project, through cycles of action inquiry in which they developed an evaluation plan, carried out the evaluation, analysed the data and disseminated the results. The project has now closed but a report on the findings of the research is available. |
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http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/Resources/evalkit/toolkit-database/ev034 This is a set of guidelines and forms to assist a lecturer with the evaluation of their instruction and students' learning. The forms, guidelines and principles outlined on this website have been designed by an Ad Hoc Senate Committee on Teaching Quality at the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, University of British Columbia, Canada. These tools are not ICT evaluation specific however they may be applied and adapted by teaching staff using ICT in their teaching. |
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