Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Lesson

Did the lesson work?
Did students learn what you had hoped?

• Did all students learn something related to the content standards? How do you know?
• Did some new learning goals emerge during instruction?
• Can you evaluate your students' learning process as well as the products they created; can you evaluate student proficiency in information access and student products/performances?
• What instructional strategies were the most effective?
• What one thing might you have done differently which would have made the lesson more effective?
• What else would you like to change, next time you use this lesson?

Be sure to keep track of your experiences so that next time, the lesson will be even more effective. You may also wish to refer to the following resources created for the Teachers' Internet Use Guide, which will aid you in evaluating both your lesson and your students' work.

• Have you thought about this?
  This instructional strategy checklist can help you analyze your lesson's effectiveness, and our list of guiding questions,
• Judging student-created Web pages
  This list of guiding questions will help you assess the clarity, relevance, and appropriateness of student products that were created in fulfillment of your lesson's requirements.
• Media Awareness
  Can your students evaluate the credibility of the information they find on the Web? This guide contains resources that will help you and your students sharpen their "mediacy" skills.
• Dealing with plagiarism issues
  How can you recognize and combat plagiarism, especially electronic plagiarism? This guide defines the problem, presents teaching-oriented Web sites, and offers suggestions for detecting and preventing plagiarism.

Congratulations!!

• If you want to design your own lesson now, you can click on the "Design Your Own Lesson" button in the left-hand border of this page. Don't forget to click the submit button when you're done.
  
• To see how other teachers have used this process to develop some exemplary lessons, click on the "Sample Lessons" button.
  
• To learn more about developing an aligned assessment for your lesson, click on the "Assessment" button.
  
• To return to the Standards-Based Instruction index page, click on the "Standards-Based Instruction" button.

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