Teachability Checklist

Teachability Checklist

The 2002 Dogwood participants originally developed this peer review teachability checklist, which has been modified by subsequent project participants. While you should consider all of these content and teachability elements when you review a web site, not all of them may be relevant for each web site.

Use the following Teachability Checklist to complete peer reviews that focus primarily on content and teaching issues.

Site Overview

What is the purpose of the site?
Who is the primary audience for the site? Secondary?
How does the site work? ?How would a user interact with the site?
Is the content sufficient to serve the purpose of the site?
Does the site have an obvious organizational structure, for example, a site map, table of contents, or main menu?

Quality of Content

Guidelines for audience use are clearly stated.
Content has substance.
Content is clearly organized for a hypertext environment.
Content is engaging.
Content relates logically to the subject.
Pedagogy is sound.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool

Portability: Site provides sufficient context so that other faculty and/or students can use it.
Site explicitly or implicitly identifies learning objectives.
Site contains real world and/or concrete examples and/or applications, if relevant.
Site language level is appropriate for the intended audience. Either avoid jargon or define it.

Audience Awareness Issues

Site is designed for the level of experience and equipment of its intended audience.
Site is clear and easy to navigate and includes specific directions for use, if necessary.
Site is planned with awareness of audience technical capabilities, and it states what special technical experitse might be required.
Tone is not offensive, condescending, sexist, ageist, racist, etc.
Contents are printable. Tables are not wider than 600 pixels.
Site is reasonably ADA compliant (no frames, clear fonts, horizontal organization of tables; alt tags on images).