L. Thompson et D. Toll, EVALUATING STUDENTS AND TUTORS PERCEPTIONS OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED-LEARNING MATERIALS - A CASE-STUDY, Innovations in education and training international, 34(4), 1997, pp. 272-280
This article presents a case study evaluation of some components of a
suite of computer-assisted learning materials known as GeotechniCAL wh
ich were developed under the Teaching and Learning Technology Programm
e (TLTP) initiative. The approaches used for different aspects of eval
uation are outlined and the procedures used to evaluate two packages a
re presented. These involve both formative and summative evaluations w
ith students and tilters. Formative evaluations proved useful as a mea
ns of feeding back to developers during the project. Summative evaluat
ions were used to identify whether the final product was seen to be us
eful.