Building your ‘Top 5’ to help you complete your Evaluation PROCESSES Building your ‘Top 5’ to help you complete your Evaluation

PROCESS (eg. Survey of Brighton students) DETAIL (What did you do? What did you learn? Why was it effective?) Improving a skill, or learning a new one Finding a better way to do something Investigating a local phenomenon Doing an experiment that generates data Testing people’s perceptions on an issue Seeking perspectives on an issue

CREDIBILITY of the process – how credible are the sources you used CREDIBILITY of the process – how credible are the sources you used? (consider author, publisher, location of source) RANKING SOURCE WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

VALIDITY of the process – how valid are the sources you used VALIDITY of the process – how valid are the sources you used? (consider accuracy, author, source, sample size, source location, date) RANKING SOURCE WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

RELIABILITY of the process – how reliable are the sources you used RELIABILITY of the process – how reliable are the sources you used? (current, credibility, cross-checking, peer-reviewed, referenced) RANKING SOURCE WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

USEFULNESS of the process - contribution to answering sub-questions, led you to other info, amount of info gained, key/emerging findings. RANKING SOURCE WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

OVERALL TOP BEST 5 PROCESSES RANKING SOURCE WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples based on credibility, reliability, bias, usefulness, validity, accoracy. 1 2 3 4 5