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iPad Apps for Learning Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation of educational apps Created by Angi Tippett based on work by Kathy Schrock and Harry Walker.

Rubric Code: AAWX84

By atippett1

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Subject: (General)

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12

App Name App Description:
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Great 4 pts
Content	Poor App does not facilitate any real educational learning.	Fair App reinforces known skills but does not teach unknown skills or content.	Good App attempts to reinforce and teach relevant and appropriate educational skills and concepts.	Great App reinforces and teaches relevant and appropriate educational skills and concepts in an engaging fashion.
Thinking skills	Poor Limited or no thinking skills required. App can be used by randomly hitting buttons with no reason behind actions.	Fair App is limited to the lower order thinking skills like understanding and remembering.	Good App facilitates a range of thinking skills, including higher order skills including creating, evaluating and analysing.	Great App encourages use of higher order thinking skills including creating, evaluating and analysing.
Engagement	Poor Students avoid using the app.	Fair Students show limited engagement with the app.	Good Student usually enjoys using the app.	Great Students are highly motivated to use app.
Design	Poor Graphics and design is not appropriate or appealing.	Fair Content, features and design offer limited appeal.	Good Engaging and motivating content, features and design	Great Highly engaging and motivating content, features and design Design encourages child to actively interact with the app and learning.
Differentiation	Poor One level of learning. No ability to adjust settings or customise.	Fair 1-2 different ability levels. Limited ability to customise to suit students.	Good A few different levels. Some ability to customise to suit students.	Great A number of different levels and the ability to customise to suit students.
Ease of Use	Poor Student needs constant adult assistance to use the app.	Fair Student needs adult with them most of the time.	Good Student needs occasional adult assistance to use the app.	Great Student can launch and operate the app independently.
Support	Poor No help/support provided	Fair Limited help/support is available.	Good Good level of help/support available if needed.	Great High level of help/support available if needed.
Reporting	Poor No feedback, tracking or reporting available.	Fair Limited feedback, tracking or reporting features.	Good Reasonable feedback, tracking or reporting features.	Great Specific feedback is provided to student and/ or teacher/parent.
Sharing	Poor No options to save, share or export data or content.	Fair Limited save, share or export functions.	Good Small range of options for save, share or export.	Great Multiple export/sharing options.
Value	Poor Initial purchase price offers very limited functionality and content. In-app purchases necessary but overpriced. Full price of app is inflated compared to content/functionality of app.	Fair Free/lite app offers limited functionality or content to evaluate. In-app purchases are necessary and/or interrupt usage of the app.	Good Free/lite app offers good range to evaluate app. Full priced app offers good value for money.	Great App and In-app purchases are relevant and appropriately priced. Free/lite app offers an exceptional amount of functionality to evaluate.
Safe and Private	Poor Students are asked to share personal data or join external sources not relevant to their learning.	Fair Students are asked to share data without relevant reasons.	Good Students is asked to join community or similar for app creation sharing but is not required to share personal data.	Great Student is not asked to join or send personal information to external sources (not including that used for assessment and reporting purposes)
Advertising	Poor Advertising is irrelevant and/or inappropriate and interrupts the process of using the app.	Fair Advertising sometimes impedes app usage and is irrelevant to app.	Good Minimal amount of advertising that does not impeded app usage.	Great No advertising is present.

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