How do I know this software improves my students motivation? Do my students know how to use softwares? These are questions teachers may always ask themselves before incorporating technology in the classrooms. There are evaluation that can help a teacher evaluate when performing technology in the classrooms. The following are evaluation to use in consideration:
Formative Evaluations
Summative Evaluations
Developing Sound Evaluation Questions
When a reading teacher wants to use a CD-rom to use for a read along with a novel, she will observe the students and see if the students improve their reading comprehension with the read-along novel. The CD-rom is a benefit when reading along because it use background noise, sounds and expresses characters voices that the students can follow while reading. The teacher will learn if the CD-rom has increase the students performance or reading academic comprehension.
When it comes to using emerging technology like blogging, the teacher will need to evaluate before incorporating blogging in the classroom by asking herself "Does the student need trainging on how to use a blog"? or "does this impact student literacy?". While the teacher use blog in the classroom, from there on, the teacher will see if students participate in blogging.
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