Instructional Design Evaluation

This reading discusses how to evaluate whether the educational goals have been met effectively. They discuss the Kirpatrick’s Model of Evaluation which has 4 questions:

Results: Are the targeted outcomes achieved?

Behavior: How do the participants apply what they learned in their behavior ?

Learning: What knowledge and skills were gained, or what attitudes were changed?

Reaction: Were learners satisfied?

Evaluation is not just about whether the students technically learned what you were aiming to teach. We have to look at their behavior and engagement in the activity to understand if the tool was the most effective it could be. For example, if the learners are goofing off while doing a serious activity, the tool may not be as effective as it can be.

“Triangulation of Data Sources”