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Hi
everyone,
I’ve
attached the responses to my evaluation question. I’ve also attached an example
evaluation form Janet Tierney sent on. There are some great links in there, in
particular Eric’s presentation is really eye-opening and the Rebecca’s
links from the
I’ve
decided on a 3-pronged approach to school visit evaluation based on this
advice.
1.)
written/drawn pupil evaluations built into the session
(with faces).
2.)
Venn diagram sticker evaluation by all teaching staff.
3.)
Follow up email/online teacher evaluation with a prize
draw for a free class visit.
Based
on your advice I made a few changes to the types of questions I was asking.
·
I wanted a quick teacher response on the day (due to
time constraints) and realised the question I really wanted the answer to was
whether they thought this trip was worthwhile (and as such would like to come
again). I have made a Venn diagram for them to place a small sticker on,
wherever they think the sessions lies in relation to the words ‘ Unique’,
‘Relevant’ and ‘Enjoyable’. Although I take Eric’s
point that they can only offer opinions about what the pupils learned and
enjoyed, they book the trips, so I need to make sure they are on-board too. As
Venn worked at
·
There were some questions I had in my evaluation forms
that no longer seemed relevant. For example the facilities (as we’re a
new building) are always given top marks but no comments. I don’t do
anything with that data anyway. I would never put in an advert 100% of teachers
think our facilities are clean and tidy!
·
I realised I was asking questions because I thought I
should or because other people do. For example one of my questions before was; ‘Did
your pupils develop skills during this session?’. Firstly, as Eric points
out there is no way of them knowing the answer to that. Secondly, I think
skills and knowledge were in there because I thought that’s what teachers
were looking for in a session. But the time they have with me is too short to
gauge that anyway. The question I need to ask for my work is ‘was the
session relevant, useful and appropriate?’
So in
conclusion I’m working on the basis of questions I want or need the answer to, presented so
that it’s fun, easy and quick to contribute.
Thanks
again for your help,
Esther
Esther
Hallberg
Education
Officer
Worship
Street
HU2
8BG
01482-317509
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