EVALUATING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

The effectiveness of instructional technology depends on appropriate e valuation of the technology, with special focus on outcomes. Because e valuation assesses how effective the technology is in enabling learner s to master a particular subject, what students learn becomes an impor tant criterion for evaluation. But how and when to assess learning and comprehension is an important and continuing problem. This paper deal s with strategic evaluation, which emphasizes technical accuracy, peda gogical soundness, substantive fidelity, integrative flexibility, and cyclic improvement. Effective strategic evaluation is a continuing pro cess-ranging from querying immediate comprehension, to modifying instr uction, to assessing long-term effects.