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Digital Tool Evaluation

4 points
Tool performs and loads
Performance quickly, without technical
issues, and is very reliable.
Tool provides clear directions,
Tool provides clear directions,
but the student needs to have
Usability and students can launch and
operate it independently.
Tool provides adaptive
content and offers complete
Differentiation
flexibility to meet student
needs.
Curriculum Targeted standard is directly
Connection taught through the tool.
Tool provides options for
customized student and
instructor feedback;
Feedback
comprehensive performance
performance data is available
data is available for student
and instructor.
Student is highly engaged
Engagement and motivated to
independently use the tool.
Tool requires the use of
development of higher order
higher order thinking skills,
Thinking Skills
including creating, evaluating,
and analyzing.
3 points
Tool loads and performs
quickly, with some minor
technical issues.
the instructor show/model
how to operate it.
Tool allows instructors the
complete flexibility to alter
content and settings to meet
student needs.
Targeted standard is
reinforced through the tool.
Tool provides options for
customized student and
instructor feedback; basic
for student and instructor.
Student is engaged and
motivated to use the tool.
Tool facilitates the
thinking skills, including
creating, evaluating, and
analyzing.
2 points
Tool loads and performs
slowly with unrelated content
interfering with operation.
Directions within the tool are
Tool is very complex to learn,
limited, and students need to
be cued each time the tool is
used.
Tool offers some flexibility to
alter content and settings to
meet student needs.
Skill or concept is directly
taught through the tool.
Basic performance data is
available for student and
instructor.
Student uses the tool as
directed by the instructor.
Tool requires the application
of content knowledge and
lower order thinking skills, like
understanding and
remembering.
1 point 0 points
Tool crashes often, has many
glitches, and has frequent
Tool does not function.
interference from unrelated
content.
and no directions are Tool is difficult to operate.
available.
Tool offers limited flexibility to Tool offers no flexibility to
alter content and settings to alter content and settings to
meet student needs. meet student needs.
Skill or concept is not clearly
Skill or concept is reinforced
connected to targeted
through the tool.
standard.
Only data about correctness
of student responses is Tool provides no feedback.
available.
While no feedback is
available from the
Student is not motivated and
Student avoids use of the
may be off-task when directed software, it encourages
communicationtool. with
to use tool.
Tool facilitates the providers.
development of content
Tool does not facilitiate the
knowledge using lower order
development of content
thinking skills, like
knowledge.
understanding and
remembering.

Strong, J., Lefeber, J., Gould, K., Hodgett, J., & Lindberg, S. (2018, May 15). Digital Tool Selection Checklist and Evaluation Rubric. OER Commons. Retrieved March 24,
2021, from https://wlresources.dpi.wi.gov/authoring/450-digital-tool-selection-checklist-and-evaluation-ru.