Program evaluation involves a systematic effort to report and explain what happened as a result of particular educational practices and instructional interventions. Introducing and integrating educational technologies is a situation involving a program or project that is typically evaluated to determine to what extent the effort succeeded. Critical questions that inform a program or project evaluation include the following:

This entry provides an overview of program evaluation, stresses the significance of fidelity of implementation studies as they explain the findings in an impact study, presents a representative logic model, and describes formative and summative evaluation.