Assessment
Tools
Academic Computing Services is exploring ways to assess student
and faculty use of and satisfaction with the instructional
technologies we support. Assessment results will help us update
our strategies for supporting teaching and learning at Wesleyan
University, in particular by identifying which new learning
technologies are most effective in our environment, and by
articulating student and faculty training needs.
To this end, Wesleyan has purchased the Flashlight
Program's "Current Student Inventory," a large set
of indexed survey questions, and a handbook covering evaluation
techniques, case studies, and other related articles. Other tools
scheduled for release in late 1999 include the Flashlight Cost
Analysis Handbook, and the Flashlight Faculty Inventory.
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Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
from the American Association for Higher Education
- this article provides an overview of what good assessment is and
how it is carried out
Assessment
Forum
- the American Association for Higher Education's Assessment
Resources page
Proposed
Assessment Plan (draft)
E-Learning Research and Assessment Network (eLera):
A distributed group that provides information for learning object evaluation
and research including the “Learning Object Review Instrument” (LORI).
Effectiveness Research
Innovations
in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference
from The Pew Learning and Technology Program (by Carol Twigg)
The
"No Significant Difference" Phenomenon selected
entries from the book "The No Significant Difference
Phenomenon" -- a comprehensive study of the issue of distance
versus face-to-face educational outcomes
Journal of
Asynchronous Learning Networks -- publishes original work in
asynchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental
results
ALN
Magazine -- publishes reports on original work in synchronous
learning networks (ALN), including experimental results, as well
as non-research reports such as "how-to" articles, and
reviews
International Review of
Research in Open and Distance Learning -- a new journal aimed
at addressing distance education theory, research, and good
practice
Journal of
Research on Technology in Education (formerly Journal of
Research on Computing in Education) -- reports "on
original research, system or project descriptions and evaluations,
syntheses of the literature, assessments of the state of the art,
and theoretical or conceptual positions that relate to educational
computing"
T.H.E. Journal (Technical
Horizons in Education) -- presents both Higher Education and K-12
practices and research on use of computing technology in education
Web Center for Learning
Networks: Effectiveness Research -- a compendium of research
on the effectiveness of online learning tools and practices
Mellon
Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching
The Mellon Foundation’s program entitled "Cost-Effective Uses of
Technology in Teaching" (CEUTT) supported studies gauging the
costs and pedagogic effectiveness of using instructional
technology in higher education. The goal was to help address
whether, and under what conditions, such technology might be
deployed in ways that reduce institutional costs and promote
pedagogic gains.
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