Collecting Data (Week #12, Blog #1)

In Chaper 32 of your textbook it mentions five steps in data collection and analysis.
These steps are:

1) Set up the database
2) Develop an evaluation plan
3) Collect and compile the data
4) Interpret the data
5) Document your findings

The book also mentioned that you needed a good statistical package to analyze the raw data. SPSS, otherwise known as Statistical Package for Social Sciences, was the program the book mentioned was a good program to use.

Our book closes with a good statement that is if you carefully pay attention to instructional design then your solution solves the problem or issue you are training. I think this is a great ending and one that is true.