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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

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