Keywords

instructional design, design process, evaluation, design and evaluation

Abstract

In this paper we have put design and evaluation as it were under a microscope with multiple lenses. We use four different snapshots of design, each at a different level of resolution, to reveal new perspectives on the design-evaluation relationship. We believe that the disparate views of designers and evaluators can be resolved by resorting to the middle ground described by Klir. We believe also that the disparate views of educational technologists and learning scientists can be similarly resolved by appealing to the similar principle of Edelson.

Original Publication Citation

Gibbons, A. S. & Williams, David D. (2018). Reconsidering design and evaluation. In L. Lin and J. M. Spector (Eds.), Constructive articulation between the sciences of learning and the instructional design and technology communities. New York: Routledge, (2018).