The evaluation for the project will be led by an Project Evaluator that will be hired by the project to provide an objectivity to evaluation activities. The Project Evaluator will be responsible for the following duties:

• Planning and scheduling all evaluation activities for the project.
• Creation of project questionnaires/surveys.
• Advising project staff on best practices for administering assessment activities and data gathering.
• Analysis of project data.
• Reporting evaluation data to project management and granting agency.

The evaluation activities will be conducted to assess the specified outcomes for both project students and project instructors, as reflected in the tables below.

Student Outcomes	Pre-assessment Project Evaluator will design assessment instruments.	Formative assessment Project staff and instructors will gather data.	Summative assessment Project Evaluator will analyze and report questionnaire or survey data. Project Staff will document and report other project evaluation data.
Improved communication from the instructor	Identification of pre-project communication methods through questionnaire or interview.	Checklist will document project teacherπs traditional communication activities and those that use course management software.	Pre-assessment, formative and summative data on communication activities will be analyzed and reported.
Increased technology used.	A pre-project questionnaire will be administered that assesses level of technology use before project activities.	Project staff will implement activities and support.	A post-project questionnaire will be administered and analyzed against pre-project data to discern whether technology use has increased.
Introduction to eLearning which most post-secondary institutions are using.	Project staff will plan informational meetings or training sessions and/or Web sites for sharing post-secondary activities to K-12 participants.	Project staff will document the meetings/training sessions/Web sites.	Project meetings/training sessions/Web sites documentation will be reported with evaluation data.

Instructor Outcomes	Pre-assessment Project Evaluator will design assessment instruments.	Formative assessment Project staff and instructors will gather data.	Summative assessment Project Evaluator will analyze and report questionnaire or survey data. Project Staff will document and report other project evaluation data
Improvement in technology skills.	A pre-project survey will be administered that assesses level of technology skills before project activities.	Project staff will implement project activities and support.	A post-project survey will be administered and analyzed against pre-project data to discern whether technology use has increased.
New instructional strategies.	A pre-project inventory will be taken to document instructional strategies used before project activities.	Project staff will implement project activities and support.	A post-project inventory of instructional strategies will be taken and analyzed against pre-project data to discern whether technology use has increased.
Improved communication with students	Identification of pre-project communication methods through questionnaire or interview.	Project staff will implement activities and support.	Pre-assessment, formative and summative data on communication activities will be analyzed and reported.
Improved course continuity.	Documentation practices will be defined that assist project instructors in recording when/how absent students use online materials to make up missed work.	Project instructors will record relevant data.	Instructor data will be compiled and reported. Student reports on course continuity will be gathered on questionnaires.
A digital-based curriculum.	Plans for curriculum documentation will be made	Curricular changes will be recorded by project instructors and/or staff.	Data on curricular changes will be compiled and reported.

The Project Evaluator will be a qualified educational evaluator, probably a faculty member of one of the participating post-secondary institutions. As the above activities indicate, the Project Evaluator, Project Staff and project instructors will work together to plan and report evaluation activities to the Project Management Team and grant providers. All project activities and data-gathering will comply with the highest ethical standards ( those of the Institution Review Board) and identities of participating instructors and students will be protected.

The Project Evaluator will meet at least three times with Project staff to plan, monitor and report evaluation activities.