Evaluation

Heuristic and Accessibility Evaluation of Wordpress.com This report provides an analysis of the heuristic evaluation used to evaluate Wordpress, an open source website creation tool that simplifies the process of blogging and website content management. The heuristic evaluation will be performed using the “heuristics” provided by Jacob Nielsen. For this evaluation, ten heuristics were used to analyze the core functionalities of Wordpress, which include creating blogs, managing…

Test Design and Evaluation Participants Two groups of participants will be recruited; a control group consisting of healthy American soldiers and an experimental group consisting of American soldiers who sustain a concussion. Participation will be voluntary and participants should be free of any history of concussion or cognitive impairment. Due to the disproportionate gender representation of soldiers only men will be included and participants have to be between 18-50 years. The study will…

Summary Main Points of Articles: The article Teacher Evaluation and the Problem of Professional Development examines professional development and its relationship to teacher evaluations. Smylie (2014) focuses his inquiry on two significant issues: the “weak link problem” and the “weak quality problem”. He identifies the weak link problem as the link between teacher evaluations and the lack of professional development opportunities provided to educators by schools and districts. The weak…

particular types of employees and validating selection tests.” (Snell, Morris, & Bohlander, 2016, sec. 8.1a para. 3) Another important role that human resources has in the performance management process is its ability to document information from the evaluations that could be valuable to the company in the event of a lawsuit. According to Managing Human Resources, because of equal opportunity laws and affirmative action employers need to maintain accurate and objective employee performance…

The RBC Foundation After-School Programs Evaluation Final Reports consists of an executive summary that includes the purpose of the evaluation, which is separated into two phases. Phase 1 sought to evaluate key outcomes and benefits of the afterschool programs through content analysis of annual program evaluation reports and phase 2 sought to gather the perspectives of the positive factors of the success of the afterschool programs as well as the negative factors that threaten its success,…

learning and growth in their classroom. The SLOs are discussed in a face to face meeting between the teacher and administrator at the start of the school year. The use of student achievement data is an important aspect of the SLOs development and evaluation. When a gap in student achievement is discovered in data, the teacher and/or administrator may uses it as the baseline for a time bound and measurable SLOs. The teacher then collects data relative to the SLOs at intervals throughout the…

artifact some individual reads concerning the differences and relationships among educational assessments and evaluations, may be entirely dissimilar. Summarizing these two distinct yet similar processes has been an exposé for me. When approaching this project, I did find numerous articles and books that have been written and appeared very parallel regarding learning assessments and evaluation. After widespread exploration, I did find several books and articles that echo variances and…

Innovation Evaluation at RUSM Day School Change is inevitable in education. Constant innovations to improve teaching and learning are expected. Assessment of innovation is essential in ensuring that teaching practices are effective and student learning and performance is inline with intending learning outcomes. Formative and summative evaluations are tools that can gauge the success of an innovated change. Formative evaluation can be a guide for improvement during implementation, whereas…

Ethics and Social Injustice of Student Evaluation Assessments in Higher Education Student evaluations are regularly used in higher education to evaluate faculty. Whether this is promotion, tenure, or contract extension, these assessments have become a large part of faculty employment. Is this ethical to provide an assessment to teenagers and young adults to jeopardize faculty job security or loss of tenure? Are evaluations used as a tool or a means to an end? Several articles have provided…

components for the framework of an effective tool for evaluating teachers. The evaluation of teachers is a critical component for schools and administrators as these evaluations provide the data for making daily decisions for continued school improvements. School leaders have many responsibilities. One of the most important responsibilities that a school administrator has is the process of evaluating teachers. Evaluations promote improved student learning and the continued professional…