Dublin workshop

Evaluation Paradigms: Worldviews or belief systems that guide evaluators

Evaluation Paradigms: Worldviews or belief systems that guide evaluators by Guba & Lincoln proposes a taxonomy for classifying evaluation systems based on Logical Positivism (Objectivism; Empiricism), Postpositivism,Pragmatism, Constructivism (Interpretivism; Naturalism)

Decisions and workplan for E-val 3 models

Much of the Dublin workshop was taken up with a detailed consieration of the applicability of different models of evaluation for the evaluationof e-learning. Copies of thes emodels are available for download elsewhere in this folder. It was decided to focus on three different models for development over the next six months. These are listed below togther with who will undertake the work.

Framework for the evaluation in SME

This document presents a model for evaluation based on learning theory.

IHEP - How to build a credible evaluation

Areas For Evaluating E-learning The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) developed an evaluation framework for e-learning that is a useful overview of areas you may wish to consider for e-learning evaluation in your organization. In a review of the literature IHEP identified 45 areas for evaluation or benchmarks and grouped them into seven categories:[1]

Learning styles and evaluation

Graham Attwell and Jenny Hughes have developed a model for evaluation based on Learning styles. They identify four typess - Corrective, Cognitive,Social and Knowledge based. The attached file provides a table for the model.

Levels of evaluation

Some time ago Donald Kirkpatrick (1975) provided a framework of four levels of evaluation:

Reference systems

As with assessment, evaluation can be broadly divided according to the ‘baselines’ on which judgements are made. These are commonly known as reference systems.

Six types of evaluation

Michael Scrivens says there are six types of evaluation.....

Steven Brown's model of evaluation

Steven Brown's model of evaluation is based on Customer satisfaction, impact on the business problem and Return on Inverstment.

The Constituent bits of a Model

Workshop particpants considered how a model is descriobed and agreed the following catergories as the basis for the models they are developing

Types of evaluation

Julian Cook (Evaluating Learning Technology Resources in ALT news sheet 6) say there are several types of evaluation, which reflect the overall aim:

Van der Knapp typology

Van der Knaap identifies 3 models of evaluation. The following useful summary, adapted from van der Knaap, (Hughes and Attwell 2002) illustrates how the learning processes may become dysfunctional.

What is evaluation?

Authors: Brooke Broadbent and Craig Cotter

Workshop Agenda

This is the agenda of the E-val 3 second project workshop held in Dublin in December 2003.

Workshop input

The following notes were prepared as guidance for the workshop session on models and tools. although the participants veered away form the original plan (!) the noltes may be still be helpfull in themselves.

Workshop notes

The text below shows the results of the groupwork undertaken at the Dublin workshop to look at different mdoels of evaluation and consider their suitability for the evaluation of e-learning. The black text shows the models looked at, the red text the comments of one of teh groups and the blue text the comments of the other.