Economic development literature often emphasizes the association between health and mortality with economic development and improvement in the standard of living. Nowhere is this more evident than in poorer countries with higher levels of infant mortality and prevalence of deadly diseases such as malaria, measles, and tuberculosis. Because of this, some governments have instituted free immunization programs for disease in their respective countries.

Imagine that you are a researcher in an impoverished African country and are puzzled that in the north of the country, which has one of the worst child mortality rates in the world, parents are rejecting health clinics’ offer of free immunizations against deadly diseases such as measles and tuberculosis. Your task is to design an evaluation to determine the causes of the problem of rejection of free immunizations and to encourage parents to have their children immunized.

An explanation of how you would go about applying the evaluation tasks. Also, explain how you would acquire the information you need to design an evaluation.

Discussion number two collaborative Web 2.0 activities, group projects, and individual assignments delivered through various technology tools provide numerous opportunities for online instructors to assess student learning.

It is important that online assessments effectively measure students’ current level of content mastery and/or skills. As covered last week, assessments are also an important instructional design consideration because they are one strategy for preventing academic dishonesty. https://jolt.merlot.org/vol6no1/sewell_0310.htm

For this Discussion, consider the role of assessment in the instructional design process for online course development.

your position on Reeves’s (2006) statement that assessment is the “lifeblood of good teaching” (p. 300). Justify your position. Then, explain what it means for an assessment to be “aligned” with other elements of an online course (e.g., learning objectives, instructional strategies). Be specific and provide support from the Learning Resources and scholarly literature.