Reports a study of how decision makers in 10 different business and educational contexts valued educational technology. Considers how practitioners and scholars can use this information to improve future evaluation efforts. Two tables show interviewees' institutions and job roles and bases that interviewees used in making educational technology…

This paper is concerned with defining evaluation as a domain in instructional technology, and with specifying the sub-areas of the domain. In education, evaluation is the process of determining the adequacy of instruction. It begins with problem analysis, which refers to determining the nature of the solution and the parameters of the problem. A…