project report & revisions - 12/1/2006

This past week I have been evaluating the process I used to create this instructional product (with a magnifying glass). The project report covers every minute detail of the analysis, development, and evaluation—it is good, but a lot of work. But it and the evaluation proved to reveal a very silly mistake in the instruction.

I originally designed the instructional for the learning to write checks and balancing your checkbook and then had a practice activity for the two subjects. Then later designed instruction for rounding while you shop, although I followed the same pattern for the rounding section, the students only had a few opportunities to practice it.

What I realize upon evaluating the instruction is that the students need more guided practice to round and shop correctly. What I should have done was have the site ordered with the three instructional pages, followed by the shopping activity that implemented each of the three tasks, and then had the students assessed.