Who Will Analyze the Data?

A small team with the necessary credibility and skills should analyze the data. The team should be familiar with the goals of the evaluation process and with general techniques used to evaluate e-learning. Skills include common data analysis techniques such as basic statistical functions and charting techniques. The statistical functions used are usually just simple averages, standard deviations, and simple correlations.

The manager or main instructional designer of the e-learning project often performs analysis. However, this can pose a bit of an ethical conflict as these individuals may have a stake in the outcome. In this case, you may want to have the analysis performed (or just audited) by a manager or instructional ...

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