3/25/08 Reading Summary
We have spent sometime over the past couple of weeks understanding evalutaions. Last week I wrote about how the articles made me start to think about how important evaluations actually are to many things. This week the articles opened my eyes to the importance of not just having an evaluation but having a well desgined evaluation.
When you think about, almost anyone can just put together an evaluation. And typically they do, just because most of the time it’s sometype of requirement. This is usually done by most who do not appreciate or understand the value of an evaluation. As we have learned in the reading there is much more to designing an evaluation then what most recognize. If the time is taken to consider all the points of evaluation design, we better our chances of them being effective.
Some of the elements involved in evalutation design deal with choosing the appropriate type of evaluation. There can be so many different types, and all dependent on the situation. There is a reasoning process behind evaluation that helps us put together an apppropriate design.
Having a well desgined evaluation produces results, which ultimately can help with resistance to evaluation. If we can educate others on how to develop evaluations and prove them to be effective, then a need for them can evolve. Once a context is created for your evaluations, a better strategy can be formed.