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Evaluation of FarWest Laboratory
Determination of Instructional Purposes
A Proposal for FarWest Laboratory Educational
Research and Development
By Daniel Flynn
Introduction
FarWest Laboratory (FWL) is requesting RFP to evaluate its instruction. In response, the
following document is a proposal the request of a RFP by FWL to create and market their training
package; Daniel Flynn will be submitting a RFP to FWL.
Description of Program
FarWest Laboratory is designing a module learning system of learning educational practices for
administration and for evaluation of market feasibility. The program is set in three module system,
including: setting goals, analyzing problems and deriving objectives. The program is designed foradministrators and graduate students in developing effective school programs.
The modules are set up to have a coordinator at an organization (that is buying the program)
run, implement and coordinate the processes of training for participants. The training program can be
either run as a workshop or completed on an individual level. The time estimation for each module is
around 10-18 hours. The cost of the program is $8.95 per unit or $24.95 for the set, as well the
coordinators handbook runs at $4.50.
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Evaluation Method
The purpose of the evaluation is to evaluate the materials of FWL and their desire to market their
administration and graduate training program of setting goals, analyzing problems and deriving
objectives. The final results will assist FWL in know what their product can do for the purposes of
marketing the products.
The results of the evaluation should be revel if the program is effective in its message. The idea here is
to measure the effective change of behavior of the DIP program, has it changed the behavior of the
participants in a way that enables the practice of knowledge. This can be shown through the data
collection methods that are noted below.
The evaluation will be created for the audience of FarWest Laboratory and its executive members, staff
members, marketing department and the R and D department. There is no need to make the results
public or to the participants of the program as this is a private company evaluating for market feasibility.
Information in data collection of this evaluation should be the following: (Criterion-Referenced, first)
what levels of achievement was completed by the participant groups? What areas of improvement are
needed based on questions not answered right. In the interview the following areas are important as
the questioning will be standardized. Areas of importance are as follows: what have you have learned
from the training modules? What areas of the training module were confusing and/or not clear? What
do you have now in terms of knowledge that you did not have before going through the training
module? The levels of data should be sorted in ordinal data based on the responses given.
Data collection will be split into two sections, one quantitative and the other qualitative, giving a good
overall picture of the program. The first set of data will be taken from using the criterion-referenced
based testing (if existing data is already in place than this data will be used and step skipped in task
section). Given that the modules are created by FWL and are aligned with their objectives (even though
limited) it is important to receive results to determine success and failure of participants. In addition to
quantitative analysis, there should be a qualitative instrument in evaluating the program. Interview
(standardized) focus groups should be the main format of evaluation as this will garner authenticity and
of results through participants behavior change as a result of going through the modules. The sample
population will depend on how many participants (around 10) in the testing period, less than 100 all
samples will be used, (this is probably going to be the case for this evaluation).
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Task Analysis
No direct time frame was given by FWL and their RFP proposal, the following is a time estimation
framework given the needs of evaluation of the DIP.
Task Agency Responsible Date Completed DeliveredMeet with FWL staff to
discuss time proposal
and RFP
Dan Flynn March 8th
2011 In Person
Submit all data collection
materials including
standardized interview
questions, and criterion-
referenced materials.
DF March 20th
2011 Electronic
Receive Feedback from
FWL on proposal of data
collection, interviewquestions and criterion-
referenced based
instruments.
FWL March 30th
2011 Electronic
Revise all data
instruments that were
proposed back to FWL
DF April 4th
2011 Electronic
CollectNorm-Referenced
Data
DF May 5th
2011 Electronic
Perform and collect
standardized interview
data
DF May 12th
2011 Electronic and/or
post
After data Collection,
summarize interview
data and revel criterion
reference scores to the
staff of FWL
DF May 19th
2011 Electronic and/or
post
Analyze that data and
create final report for
FWL
DF May 31st
2011 Electronic
Present final evaluation
report to the staff of FWL
DF June 2nd
2011 In Person
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Project Personal
Daniel Flynn is a graduate student at Boise State University in the masters of Educational Technology
Program, studying such subjects as Instructional Design and Evaluation for Educational Technologies. I
also have experience in the field of data collection for the past 5 years as a technology coordinator
running technology related programs and as a facilitator of MAP programs at my places of employment,As well my consultations for evaluations have included schools outside of my assignment, aiding in
programs at a new school in programs such as PowerSchool and Datawise.
Budget
Personal Description Cost
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Salary, Daniel Flynn at 30 Days at $350 per day $10,500
Assistant (15 days at $150) $2,250
Total Personal $12.750
Travel Cost Description Cost
Plane Cost R/T form Bucharest to Los Angeles (2
times at $1,500USD per trip)
$3,000
Car Rental per day 3 days (2 times for 6 days total
@ $50 USD per day) Long trip for Jet Lag
$300
Daily Per Diem ($100 USD per day at 6 days) $600
Total Travel $3900
Other Costs
Materials of Course (10 set for 24.95 and 4.50 for
coordinators handbook)
$254.45
Post (estimate) $300
Telephone (Est for contract of 4 months and
international)
$1,000
$1554.45