Evaluation Plan
- Purpose for evaluating learning solution
- Strategy to determine solution effectiveness
- Data collection plan
- Revision cycle strategy
- Plan to communicate results
For the ongoing revision of this course, we’ll be using is a series of online questionnaires. Our plan to communicate results of the evaluation, and the method to determine the solution’s effectiveness are detailed in the tables below. Ongoing adjustments to the program can be made throughout the course at the instructor’s request depending on how fast the students advance. After completing formative evaluations, students submit them through the online PEOI portal and they go directly to the volunteer instructor. Due to the short duration of the DNA segment of the whole PEOI biology class, only two formative evaluations will be given at the end of two consecutive days of coursework.
The purpose of evaluating the learning solution is to check student understanding of the parts and functions of DNA. The data collection method will be an online formative evaluation quiz that will be described below, and the analysis plan is to administer a summative evaluation with the final project on the visualization of DNA structure using the rubric on the bottom of this page. The summative evaluation will be shared with the PEOI administration and the volunteer instructor. We’ll know if the program was effective if evaluation shows that it was well-received, and key information was learned. We will use the data from each semester to improve the class for both the volunteer instructor and the students. Four levels of evaluation are included in the plan and the structure is defined by The New World Kirkpatrick Model (Kirkpatrick, 2015).
The plan for revision is executed during evaluation level 3, behavior, and will be assessed using the formative evaluation survey mid-training. Level 3 involves monitoring and adjusting the plan and examines behavior of participants, providing them with encouragement and rewards. Questions related to how participants are enjoying the program and whether they are learning key information will be included in order to determine the degree to which participants can apply what they’ve learned. The indicator of program success will be active execution and monitoring of processes and systems that reinforce, monitor, encourage, and reward performance.