5.3 Program Evaluation
Candidates design and implement program evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of professional learning on deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills and/or increasing student learning. (PSC 5.3/ISTE 4c)
Artifact: One-Hour Technology Workshop
Reflection
For this artifact, I planned and implemented an hour-long professional development workshop on an instructional technology tool, Quizizz. In addition to planning and implemented, I created a webpage resource including my presentation, electronic handouts, and other resources. At the end of the workshop, I administered a survey to analyze the effectiveness of my workshop and determine next steps. In this survey, I designed it using Guskey’s Levels of Evaluation. Questions had to be designed and well-though out in order to be valid for the purpose of evaluating my workshop. ; ALL question types are well thought-out and appropriate to get valuable data; ALL questions are valid for the purpose of evaluating the workshop. Additionally the tool was digital.
For my workshop, I used Guskey’s Levels of Evaluation as a framework for designing my assessment survey for my workshop. I had to design and implement the program workshop evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of my professional learning on several areas, including deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills, and increasing student learning (through teachers).
Through this activity, I was introduced to the Guskey’s Level of Evaluation. In learning about his levels of evaluation, I recalled numerous professional development surveys I had taken throughout my education career.
I knew I wanted to keep the survey instrument on the shorted side because I know longer surveys can be tedious for teachers – particularly to take on a busy teacher workday. The workshop was on using Quizizz in the classroom. I do wish I could have found a better way to use that tool for the actual survey instead of Google Forms. In addition to a survey tool, that would have been a good way to show another use for the instructional technology tool I just presented on.
Through this workshop, I was able to give teachers an additional tool to formatively assess and engage their students. My workshop is part of a yearlong school initiative to introduce best practices for personalized learning in my school before our one-to-one initiative roles out. The impact can be assessed through teacher surveys (as it was at the end of my workshop) and future surveys and/or walkthroughs to determine how many teachers have utilized the tool in their own classrooms. The survey allowed me to determine next steps and follow up with teachers who requested additional help in implementing the tools. Through the personalized learning initiative, student learning and growth should only increase.
For this artifact, I planned and implemented an hour-long professional development workshop on an instructional technology tool, Quizizz. In addition to planning and implemented, I created a webpage resource including my presentation, electronic handouts, and other resources. At the end of the workshop, I administered a survey to analyze the effectiveness of my workshop and determine next steps. In this survey, I designed it using Guskey’s Levels of Evaluation. Questions had to be designed and well-though out in order to be valid for the purpose of evaluating my workshop. ; ALL question types are well thought-out and appropriate to get valuable data; ALL questions are valid for the purpose of evaluating the workshop. Additionally the tool was digital.
For my workshop, I used Guskey’s Levels of Evaluation as a framework for designing my assessment survey for my workshop. I had to design and implement the program workshop evaluations to determine the overall effectiveness of my professional learning on several areas, including deepening teacher content knowledge, improving teacher pedagogical skills, and increasing student learning (through teachers).
Through this activity, I was introduced to the Guskey’s Level of Evaluation. In learning about his levels of evaluation, I recalled numerous professional development surveys I had taken throughout my education career.
I knew I wanted to keep the survey instrument on the shorted side because I know longer surveys can be tedious for teachers – particularly to take on a busy teacher workday. The workshop was on using Quizizz in the classroom. I do wish I could have found a better way to use that tool for the actual survey instead of Google Forms. In addition to a survey tool, that would have been a good way to show another use for the instructional technology tool I just presented on.
Through this workshop, I was able to give teachers an additional tool to formatively assess and engage their students. My workshop is part of a yearlong school initiative to introduce best practices for personalized learning in my school before our one-to-one initiative roles out. The impact can be assessed through teacher surveys (as it was at the end of my workshop) and future surveys and/or walkthroughs to determine how many teachers have utilized the tool in their own classrooms. The survey allowed me to determine next steps and follow up with teachers who requested additional help in implementing the tools. Through the personalized learning initiative, student learning and growth should only increase.