Ive heard people call Flashlight an activity-centered approach to evaluation. What does that mean?
The purpose of evaluation is to help people make decisions. Knowing that technology was used and that outcomes improved (or stayed the same, or got worse) doesn’t help anyone decide anything. To make improvements you need to know how the technology was used (the activity that used it). Focusing your attention not just on technology and on outcomes but also on activities yields some surprising dividends. For example, suppose your institution invested in e-mail in part so that students would learn better. How is e-mail supposed to help? Let’s suppose that an important activity is students doing homework together. The focus on the activity raises some important questions for your study. For example, do students have access to e-mail from the places they do homework? Do faculty encourage, or discourage, students working together on homework. Do students believe collaboration of this sort is helpful? a waste of time? cheating? The answers to these kinds of questions help determine how helpf
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