Achieving+Goals

How does the design model determine if your goals were achieved?
As part of the design stage, one creates measurable objectives which helps the teacher answer the question, "Did the students accomplish the objective and thus meet the goal?" These objectives can be measured through traditional assessments, multiple-choice tests, fill-in-the-blanks, true-false, matching and the like where students select an answer or recall information to complete the assessment. Alternately, or in combination with, these objectives can be measured through an authentic assessment which usually includes a task for students to perform and a rubric by which their performance on the task will be evaluated. The assessment is designed with the objectives and then generated in the development phase.

In addition, teacher reflection - the Formative Evaluation stage of the ADDIE model - lets one assess the general success of the implementation and make changes on the fly. Of course, a final reflection - the Summative Evaluation - allows one to make notes regarding positives and negatives of the design for future analysis.