To effectively evaluate your progress towards achieving your goals, you must first clearly define what you intend to accomplish. One helpful way to do this is to describe the specific behaviors you expect to see from learners and hear them say once a particular outcome is reached. The document then provides some examples of ways to measure success, such as evaluating learners' work, observing classroom behaviors, and getting feedback from learners themselves.
2. PRACTICAL ACTION: Putting measures in place
Using the outcomes from the discussions above,
trial one new method of collecting information in
each class for an agreed length of time. At the
end of the trial, arrange a workshop at which
individuals provide feedback on the strengths and
weaknesses of each method. Based on these
findings, decide which methods are most
appropriate for your school and refine them for
further use.
TALKING POINT: How are you going to
measure your achievements?
Taking each of your aims in turn and looking at the
goals you have set in the activity on the other side
of this card, talk through the following questions
with colleagues.
• What quantitative information can we collect to
help us measure the progress we are making
towards achieving this aim?
• What qualitative information can we collect?
• What methods could we use to collect this
information?