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Complexity of Educational Sample Comprehensive Evaluation
Technology and the Complexity of A review of three different approaches
Evaluating Educational Technology used in the evaluation of the project
Programs
“Improving science education:
The complexity of educational A collaborative approach to the
technology creates a need for more preparation of elementary school
comprehensive approaches to program teachers,” and the findings from the three
evaluation methods. Ideally, when different approaches may help to gain
distinct disciplines such as science, an understanding of a comprehensive
language, social studies, mathematics, approach to program evaluation. The
and arts are represented individually or reason for using this example is that
in some combination using educational this project has developed interactive
technology, the resultant teaching and multimedia technology-based cases
learning process is complex. The role of effective and ineffective elementary
and nature of educational technology school science teaching strategies
will change depending upon the degree suitable for science methods courses
(e.g., how, where) to which it overlaps taught at Vanderbilt University. As
and/or integrates with each individual discussed earlier this project integrated
discipline. Most approaches to program educational technology with science
evaluation in educational technology and science teaching methods. Science
ignore this basic difference in overlaps educators from the college of education,
and integration and end up adapting science faculty from the college of arts
evaluation methods that are developed and sciences, and teachers from grades
for single discipline educational 4-7 from the local school district have
settings. Therefore it is necessary that collaborated. The three evaluation
program evaluation should be made methods used and their respective
comprehensive enough to include findings follow (Kumar and Altschuld,
multiple methods and through their 2003).
use should enable it to capture an in- 1. Traditional evaluation conducted by
depth picture of large-scale educational project staff (Barron et al., 1999)
technology programs and projects
in teaching and learning. From this Method - Onsite observations,
perspective, it is worth reviewing how tests, surveys and follow-up
three different approaches to evaluating interviews.
an interactive multimedia-based science Findings – Significant gains in
teacher education project in sum teacher competency (e.g., section
provided a comprehensive view of the of learning e x p e r i e n c e s
project, which is impossible to obtain and materials which stimulate
otherwise. This example is used due to student curiosity and scientific
the availability of published research investigations). student behavior
and reports on the project in addition to (e.g., student involvement in
familiarity with the project. lesson) and other activities
(e.g., hands-on discovery).

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