What do we need to do to prepare for the changed educational environment that we are going to face between now and at latest next fall? This is something that every educator – teacher, administrator, policy-maker – should be asking themselves now.
A Common Thread
Refining Goals and Establishing Indictators
Regardless of your project’s scope, there are a few good common sense steps that your team can take to set the stage for effective evaluation. Planning effectively for project evaluation involves making time for discussing and clarifying your project goals, defining expectations - indicators - for project outcomes, and giving some thought as to what data you want to collect to document those outcomes. Get started on that process with some simple tools for identifying discussion participants and starting to clarify goals and indicators.