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Appendix B
Worksheets

For your convenience, we are including copies of all of the worksheets found throughout the Handbook.

What changes do you want?

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What changes do others want?

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Whom can or did you talk to about these suggestions?

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What did you find out could be done?

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What information do you need to follow-up on?

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To answer the larger question of "Why am I evaluating?" you will need to consider the different stakeholders in your program and what they want out of the evaluation.

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What do you want from an evaluation?

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Looking at what both you and other stakeholders want from an evaluation, what are two or three major reasons or purposes for doing your evaluation?

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How might these reasons affect the design of your evaluation?

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"Where Do I Start? " Worksheet

What documents are available (e.g., state and/or local technology plans)?

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Ask questions about the plans. What major stakeholders were involved in creating the documents that were collected? Why were the plans written? Are the state and local plans similar (e.g., have similar timeframes)? Are the plans being implemented? How have plans changed over the years? What are some major goals in the plans (e.g., "use technology to improve student writing skills")?

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How is technology integrated into the curriculum and/or standards?

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Whom could you talk to about the evaluation?

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Who else may be collecting data you can use?

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Are there any other resources that you learned about by talking to people?

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What does the Internet have to offer?

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"What Questions Should I Ask?" Worksheet

What do you want to know? (You may want to look back to the "Why Am I Evaluating" worksheet for ideas on why you are evaluating and what you want from an evaluation.)

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What will others want to know (e.g., principal, superintendent, board members, funding agency, teachers, parents, students)?

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What other requirements are there?

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After this exercise, what are your "top 5" or "top 10" goals and questions?

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"What Information Do I Need to Collect?" Worksheet

Using the goals and research questions you came up with in the last section as a starting point, work through the following grid. You may have to revise some of your goals and questions as a result.

"What Are My Conclusions?" Worksheet

Try to fill out the same form that Kathy did:

How Do I Communicate My Results?" Worksheet

What requirements do you have?

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To whom do you need to communicate findings?

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What reports or memos could you write and to whom would they go?

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What presentations could you do?

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Is there anything you need to do in the meantime before the reports or presentations (e.g., e-mails)?

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Where Do I Go From Here? Worksheet

What changes do you want?

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What changes do others want?

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Whom can or did you talk to about these suggestions?

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What did you find out could be done?

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What information do you need to follow-up on?

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[Appendix A - Additional Sources]

[Appendix C - Examples of Technology Surveys]