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App Evaluation Form

Mobile Apps

Educational apps for use in a middle school environment on iPads and other mobile technologies

Rubric Code: SAWA89

By dougjoubert

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Subject: Education

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: 6-8

App Name
	Poor Not likely to generate widespread use or enthusiasm 1 pts	Fair Should generate interest and application for some areas of school population 2 pts	Good Applicable within a wide range of grade levels, subject areas, and levels of student ability 3 pts	Excellent Highly applicable and useful for most if not all grade levels, content areas, and levels of student ability 4 pts
Curriculum Application Content/grade level specific or widespread application across grade levels and subject areas	Poor Only useful for a highly specialized application or student population	Fair May be useful for a single grade level or a single subject area	Good Applicable for a single subject across all grade levels or applicable for a single grade level across all subject areas	Excellent Can be used in all subject areas across all grade levels regardless of student ability
Student Engagement Student is passive responder to prompts from application or student is actively engaged in creating a product based on student input	Poor Student involvement is limited to drill and practice or rote game-like interaction	Fair Some opportunity for student to create responses or enter content for use with application	Good Student has the flexibility to design a project based on existing content or enter unique content from at least a single subject area	Excellent Opportunity for student to design a unique project based on student-generated content from any subject area
Monetary Value Product is a thinly veiled commercial designed to lure user to make a purchase or product is a fully functional and robust educational tool as-is	Poor Application is too cost-prohibitive for widespread use	Fair Fee is reasonable, but application may require an upgrade or additional purchase for comprehensive use	Good Price is free or nominal, and application is useful as-is, but upgrade or additional purchase is required to access certain features	Excellent Product is totally free or reasonably priced with no additional purchase or upgrade required
Student Privacy Product requires student to create an account or product allows student to use anonymously	Poor Student must create an account and enter private information to use application	Fair Teacher and/or student must create an account and enter private information to use application	Good Teacher may need to create an account, but students may be assigned generic usernames.	Excellent No private or personal information is necessary to use application
Middle School Appropriate Product contains ads and/or hyperlinks to inappropriate sites or product is ad-free and self-contained	Poor App contains ads and/or hyperlinks to adult sites, rendering the app highly inappropriate for middle school use	Fair App contains annoying but not necessarily inappropriate ads and/or hyperlinks	Good App may contain a few totally benign ads and/or hyperlinks	Excellent App does not contain ads or hyperlinks
Ease of Use Product has many complicated features or product is intuitive and powerful	Poor App is cumbersome and text-heavy with complicated features, convoluted navigational structure, and elusive help menus	Fair Text is relatively straightforward, features are comprehensive, navigational structure is apparent, and help menus are available	Good App relies less on text and more on visuals, features are simple and logical, navigational structure is intuitive, and help menus are adequate	Excellent App combines text and visual effectively; features are comprehensive, powerful, and easy to understand; navigational structure is logical and intuitive; help menus are readily accessible and complete
Student Appeal Product is dry, visually unattractive, and not likely to spark student interest or product is colorful, kid-friendly, and likely to pique student interest	Poor App not likely to generate student interest due to content, visual appeal, and/or type of interaction required	Fair With instruction and guidance, teacher may be able to generate student interest in product	Good Students likely to gravitate to app and begin exploring	Excellent App likely to draw students in, encourage exploration, and maintain student engagement and growth
Educational Value Product contains limited or inaccurate educational content or content is accurate & current.	Poor Product has little or no relevance.	Fair Product contains limited accurate and/or current related content but offers possibility for user input	Good Product contains accurate, comprehensive, and current content	Excellent Product not only contains accurate, comprehensive, and current content, but also allows for user input

Keywords:

apps, iPads, educational, middle school, mobile technologies

Subjects:

Education

Types:

Assessment

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