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Methods of Evaluating Educational Technology »

Authors: Walter Heineke (Editor), Luara Balsi
ISBN-13: 9781930608573, ISBN-10: 1930608578
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	List of Contributors
	Introduction
1	Do Today's Evaluations Meet the Needs of Tomorrow's Networked Learning Communities?	3
2	Evaluating Educational Technology: A Call for Collaborative Learning, Teaching, Research and Development	17
3	Multiple Perspectives on Evaluation of New Technology in Education and Teacher Education	39
4	Technology and Teacher Education: Evaluating International Dimensions of Cooperation	59
5	Technology: How Do We Know It Works?	73
6	Making the Familiar Strange - and Interesting - Again: Interpretivism and Symbolic Interactionism in Educational Technology Research	81
7	It All Depends: Strategies for Designing Technologies for Education Change	101
8	Exploring a Description and Methodology for Learner-Centered Design	121
9	Framing Technology Program Evaluations	145
10	Developing Assessments for Tomorrow's Classrooms	159
11	Using Latent Trait Models for Program Evaluations: An Example Using a PreService Teachers' Instructional Media Course	177
12	The Primary Importance of Experience in the Evaluation of Educational Technology	197
13	Technology as Facilitator of Quality Education: A Model	211
14	Documenting the Effects of Instructional Technology: A Fly-Over of Policy Questions	235
15	Understanding and Addressing Multiple Stakeholder Needs: Evaluation and the World of Policymakers	247
16	What's Worth Looking for? Issues in Educational Technology Research	265
17	Perspectives from Policymakers: How Policymakers Gather and Use Evaluative Information About Educational Technology	293