TLT/Flashlight Educational Materials on Evaluation, Assessment, etc.

Workshop Materials: Productive Asessment, Evaluation

Handbook and Other Materials l Asking the Right Questions (ARQ) l Training, Consulting, & External Evaluation l FAQ

It's important, whenever possible, to combine training about how to do productive investigations with training in how to use tools (e.g. Flashlight Online, the procedures for modeling uses of money and time described in the Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook). Always look first at the Flashlight Evaluation Handbook for materials you can use substantively and as handouts. This web page links to a variety of educational and training materials that we hope our subscribers will find useful!

Learning how to conceptualize the difference between a technology, the activity that relies on that technology, and the outcome of that activity (triad):

"Asking the Right Questions" (ARQ): materials for brief (5-20 minute) hybrid workshops on using surveys of learners in order to improve learning.
Introduction to "Triads," including a short eClip by Steve Ehrmann introducing the idea of a 'triad' (key concept in developing an evaluation using The Flashlight Approach.)
"Cohen" workshop materials. This body of material begins with an excerpt of an article by Greg Cohen, Cal State Sacramento. Participants in your workshop will annotate the article, circling the technologies, the activities, and the outcomes. Then you can work with them developing a brief evaluation plan that explores these triads-in-use.
Workshop introducing the 'seven principles of good practice' and the TLT Group's "Seven Principles Collection of Ideas for Teaching and Learning with Technology." This mini-workshop is useful on its own, or as part of Flashlight training (because the Flashlight Current Student Inventory is organized, in part, around the seven principles. Includes a brief eClip by Steve Ehrmann describing the genesis of our work applying technology to the implementation of the seven principles.

If there are slides you'd like or workshop materials you'd like us to develop for or with you, or if you have developed workshop materials you'd be willing to share, please contact Steve Ehrmann

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