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Visualization of Evaluation Data
Deanna Buchanan
Southern New Hampshire University
The audiences and the types of information they should know
Internal category
Students- The most relevant information for the student is the new course outline, the content of the syllabus, changes that are to be made in the existing outline and the most appropriate course materials that are relevant to the syllabus. Information about the timetable outline, remedial classes, and benchmarks with other institutions, exam dates, and Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs) should also be presented.
Teachers- The most relevant information for the teachers is information on the new BAT MAT course outline, follow-up information on the changes made to the syllabus, the recommended teachers' guides. They should also know the activities for the semester, such as benchmarks and the expected exam dates. Strategies for tackling the course materials and dealing with assignments should also be presented.
External Category
Parents- depending on the institution's logistics, the parents should be told the books they should buy for their children following the changes made in the syllabus. Additional information on additional money needed to finance benchmarks should also be presented.
Integration of feedback
From choices in the last module, the information on the importance of each course material and topic should be added and presented to the students. For instance, from the reviews, some students claimed that they did not know the essence of the topic on Computer Software and Discrete Mathematics. To correct such ambiguity, different lecturers will make a presentation to highlight the importance of different topics.
Ways to visualize important information
To visualize the information to the students, information can be presented in PowerPoint slides addressing each relevant area such as the course outline (Bachman et al. 2015). Pie charts can be used to show the division of the semesters in terms of the lesson hours, benchmark time, and test time and exam times. Similar techniques can be used for the teachers with additional techniques such as emails and treemaps to show the relationship between the different course contents can also be incorporated.
To visualize the information to the parents on the deadlines of sourcing the recommended materials, visual indicators such as push notifications to parents’ mobile phones and email addresses can be used (Cremer et al. 2017). For the board of governance to create a clear picture of the students' enrollment statistics, a line graph representing the trend over the years can be used. The finances needed to aid the recommendations that are to be materialized can be presented in a table form.
Specific technologies appropriate for presenting the visuals
For the students’, teachers, and the board of governance presentations, the best tool is PowerPoint. The PowerPoint slides presentation can incorporate the bullet points, the charts and the tables (Cremer 2015). Google Slides can be used to share relevant documents among the students, teachers (course outlines, course materials and the changes made in the syllabus), and the members of the board of governance on recommendations presented by the students and the financial requirements to meet them. For the parents, e-mails that incorporate tables on semester dates and cover pages of the books they should buy can be used.
References
Bachman, W. M., Roth, R. A., Ubillos, R., & Groszko, G. G. (2015). U.S. Patent No. 9,032,300. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Cremer, M. K., Chen, C. W., DiMaria, P. C., & Wu, H. H. (2017). U.S. Patent No. 9,753,925. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Cremer, M. K., Chen, C. W., DiMaria, P. C., & Wu, H. H. (2015). U.S. Patent No. 8,996,538. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
