Evaluation toolkit
This toolkit shares a wide range of resources, guidance and tools tailored to assist your evaluation practices across varying levels of impact. It aims to facilitate evaluation as a tool for learning and improvement for everyone to use and to help you embed collaborative, evidence-based decision-making.
Evaluation principles
This evaluation toolkit has been built on five key principles, inspired by the Evaluation Collective manifesto in the Higher Education sector, as explained in the video.
How to use the evaluation toolkit
This toolkit is split up into three different areas, these are:
- A place to contact evaluation advocates across the organisation, attend sessions and events where you can speak to experts on different types of evaluation, such as for Access Participation Plans (APP) and Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) activities.
- Guidance, tools and examples to draw on to help you evaluate your practice and disseminate the results of your evaluation
- Internal and external resources such as Theory of Change template documents and evaluation planning tools to help you deliver impactful outcomes for teaching and learning.
Workshops
To help you develop your Theory of Change and design, plan and deliver your evaluation effectively, you can sign-up for either one-to-one consultation sessions or a group workshop introducing Theory of Change.
Evaluation support sessions
These 30-minute, one-to-one support sessions help you to develop your evaluation plan. During the session, you will be given templates and case studies to help you plan effectively and sustainably and will gain insights from lessons learned based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.
Theory of Change consultation
A one-hour, one-to-one, introductory session designed to help you understand the basics of Theory of Change. This session will focus on addressing your evaluation needs. You will be guided on how to apply the Theory of Change framework, and provided with links to resources and case studies to help you plan, design and complete your evaluation effectively. You will also gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.
Extended Theory of Change workshop
This comprehensive, two-hour workshop provides in-depth guidance and support to help you create and implement a Theory of Change for your project, practice, or programme.
To request this session, please email the Teaching Excellence team.
Evaluation support session (Access and Success focussed)
If your evaluation is linked to Access and Success or the Access and Participation Plan, this 30-minute, one-to-one session will help you to develop your evaluation plan. You will be given templates and case studies to help you plan effectively and sustainably and will gain insights from lessons learned, curated by the Evaluation Advocates Network, based on the experiences of colleagues across the University.
Guidance and resources
Guides and templates to help you design, plan and deliver your evaluation
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Evaluation methods
Guidance and tools to help you choose your evaluation methods and approaches
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Evaluation Advocate Network
The Evaluation Advocates Network brings people from across the University together to share good practice in evaluation, lessons learnt and findings, and to join events
Join the Evaluation Advocates Network Teams Channel
Acknowledgements
This toolkit was developed by Fran Hooley (Evaluation and Impact Project Lead) in partnership with Haadia Bahemia (Student Partner), Jack Walker (Student Data, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Access and Success) and the Teaching Excellence team (Institute of Teaching and Learning).