Neelam - Learning Journal 3

At this stage I understand how to approach almost every stage of the instructional design process; although, I still have questions regarding the formative assessment. I understand that the formative assessment basically plays the role of providing data that should be really collected during early stages of design which can help to improve the instructions. My major question is in understanding how to design the data collection tools for the formative assessments. I went ahead and read online case 3 which gave me some clues but did not satisfy me completely. I am planning to take a look at the formative assessment models in more details and research through some of the databases to better understand the development and implementation of the formative assessment. I think I will also get a better understanding as I implement the instructions for the class project. I think that the formative assessment is a very important piece because it shows how effective the instruction design was.

I think I connected well with most of the material that I read in the last few chapters. I don’t have any direct experiences which I can use to show connection but I have used stages of the ADDIE process while designing engineering and technical solutions. Till now I have not applied this process to instruction design but throughout I saw similarities. It seems to me that processes like ADDIE are universal and have application in many areas.

Thinking back to my first learning journal, I would still prefer an eclectic and practical approach to instructional design. This way there is more flexibility available while designing instructions for various situations. Approaches such as the Just-In-Time-Teaching and universal instructional design would be great asset to an eclectic like me.