In order to provide instructors and other faculty the most valuable and actionable evidence of how a digital tool will work for their students in their educational environments, evaluation of product effectiveness needs to begin in development and continue throughout the lifetime of the product. By beginning testing early in a product’s life cycle, instructors have valuable insights they can use when making adoption and implementation decisions. This research brief presents the results from beta tests of ACHIEVE Read & Practice for psychology and provides a discussion about how we have used early evaluation to further refine the product, to inform subsequent impact testing, and to provide early evidence of effectiveness to support instructors when they make adoption and usage decisions.     Achieve Read & Practice for OpenStax Introductory Psychology (Six Months Access)  ... View more

In order to provide instructors and other faculty the most valuable and actionable evidence of how a digital tool will work for their students in their educational environments, evaluation of product effectiveness needs to begin in development and continue throughout the lifetime of the product. By beginning testing early in a product’s life cycle, instructors have valuable insights they can use when making adoption and implementation decisions. This research brief presents the results from an implementation study of the iClicker student app and provides a discussion about how this study will provide early evidence of effectiveness to support instructors when they make adoption and usage decisions.   ... View more