
Participants assess materials relevant to them, and finish the course with a rubric for future evaluations.

This course provides a systematic approach to evaluating digital materials, taking participants through the What? Why? Who? and How? of evaluation. On what basis or criteria do we assess these learning materials, whether created by a teacher, an ELT publisher or a tech company? The results suggest that the use of interactive whiteboards can enhance student learning of mathematics and reading/language arts when teachers use them in a manner that takes advantage of their unique capabilities.Do you have to choose a suitable vocabulary app for your students? Select digital materials? Recommend a learning platform for your school? Formally or informally, many teachers and academic managers select and evaluate digital learning materials quite often.


A within-group comparison of such usage between teachers whose students scored above the mean on standardized tests and those whose students scored at or below the mean revealed that teachers of high-scoring students used interactive whiteboards more frequently and in more creative and constructivist ways than did teachers whose students performed at or below the mean. In addition, statistically significant and meaningful interactions between whiteboard use and grade levels were found, leading to a more careful look at differences in the ways teachers employed whiteboards in their instruction. A statistically significant main effect on reading achievement was not found, although the reading/language arts scores of students whose teachers used whiteboards were slightly higher than those of students whose teachers did not use them. A statistically significant but not meaningful positive main effect of whiteboard use on mathematics achievement was found.

Reading/language arts and mathematics achievement test scores of all students in the third through eighth grades in a small urban school district in northern Ohio were compared between students whose teachers used interactive whiteboards for instruction and those whose teachers did not. This study explored the effects of teachers’ use of interactive whiteboards on students’ reading/language arts and mathematics performance.
