Evaluate

Formative and Summative Evaluation
The middle school students who took part in creating concept PowerPoint shows, conducted evaluations in the classroom. They learned to evaluate whether the students who used them were able to locate the correct image when prompted. One student acted as the teachers and provided instructions to the student at the computer. The other student monitored the success of the actions.

To evaluate this project there are multiple aspects to consider: 1- Teachers development of PowerPoint concept shows and use in the classroom. 2- Peers creation of PowerPoint shows and their evaluation of the project. 3- Students use of the PowerPoint shows and their ability to practice and generalize the concepts.

For each of these I might want to try different types of evaluation. For the teachers, I might want to view a sampling of shows they created to see I think I did a good job in getting across the concept. I might want to provide them with a survey as to how useful it is as a tool and also conduct some interviews on their use and ideas for improvement.

For peers who participated in developing shows for other classmates, I could do two types of evaluation. I would work with their teacher to find out if the project made a difference in their work habits and participation. I would also see how the students did in collecting and analyzing data as far as using mathematics to calculate total, mean, median, and mode or conduct tallies on items most frequently missed. Finally might develop a survey for the students to take on their evaluation of the project. For an example of two questions the results might look like this with the first column being strongly disagree to the column on the right being strongly agree.

Finally I could evaluate the students who used the PowerPoint on their ability to practice the concepts and generalize to new situation. I might develop a scoring card that would include each concept and then prepare a set of objects that students would manipulate according to my directions. Then I would develop an activity to be conducted in a natural settings such as a grocery store to see if the students could generalize the use of the concepts to that location.