EDTEC 590 Expectations

Attendance and Participation:

Attendance, promptness and participation are both expected and appreciated. You'll be asked to read your texts and ECR articles prior to class and come prepared to share your opinions of and reactions to them.

Take full advantage of the opportunities this class affords--from meeting evaluators in the field to examining how the evaluation functions unfolds in all sorts of organizations (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, the military, government, the corporate sector, etc.). The connections you'll make you and the competencies you'll acquire in this course will positively affect your marketability--your readiness to take on interesting, challenging and well-compensated organizational (or consultative) roles.

Requirements/Assessment:

		Your final grade is determined by your performance on class assignments and -- to a far lesser extent -- your class participation. We do, however, reserve the right to add or modify assignments as the class progresses. The following depicts the preliminary breakdown of work for the course and each assignment's contribution to your total grade:

Course Project
You'll be conducting an evaluation project, for a real client, that involves data collection, analysis, and reporting. The project allows you to walk through the entire evaluation process: contextualizing the evaluation object; conducting a brief lit review (to inform how you'll proceed); determining major issues to investigate; and collecting and analyzing data and inferring meaning from your findings. Our goal is to help you connect theory and practice ... and provide first-hand (and real-world) experience with developing and "administering"/implementing several different tools -- for example, a rubric to assess documents or extant data of some kind, a brief survey, an interview or focus group guide, or an observation protocol. Your grade/score comprises feedback gleaned from our assessment and your own reflective input.
Activity	Description	Points
	The evaluation project is comprised of multiple parts/deliverables; altogether it's "worth" 60% of your grade.	240 (60%)
Lit review	Research cannot be undertaken without a thorough review of the literature. Specific parameters of the assignment will be provided in class -- along with example papers. In essence, you'll produce a structured white paper or technical report that generally conforms to APA guidelines.	40
Eval plan	The evaluation plan is what guides the conduct of your study.	40
Instruments	These are the instruments that you will build (or "adapt/adopt") to collect your data.	40
Report	The report allows you to present a coherent explanation of the data you collected, and your interpretation of the analysis.	120
Other Requirements
Activity	Description	Points
Midterm	Your midterm is scheduled for about midway through the semester, and it's worth 20% of your grade.	80 (20%)
Blog contributions	You'll be asked to make substantive contributions to our course blog--tasks that altogether are worth 10% of your grade.	40 (10%)
Survey and test practice	Though you'll have several in-class activities to complete, the practice survey and practice test are the most substantive--so think of them as assignments ... not merely an opportunity to "work" with new tools. These two assignments comprise 10% of your grade.	40 (10%)

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