Evaluating MLAITE collaboration

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Evaluating MLA/ITE collaboration

• Finding out what works and why, enabling you to
  celebrate successes
• and learn for development
• William Stow, CCCU, November 2008

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Principles

• As embedded as possible
• Involving as many different groups/stakeholders
  as possible
• As undemanding of participants as possible
• As beneficial to development as possible

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Planning - for - evaluation

• Acknowledge shared aims and ID intended
  learning
• Set up or review processes and structures to
  support learning
• Plan activities
• Do activities, monitor outcomes
• Report

• Identify intended learning outcomes (decide whose
  learning student teachers only? MLA staff and
  setting? Children/young people?) with relevant
  stakeholders
• Review what data you are already collecting
• Devise new ways to gather data if needed
• Do activities/run placement and collect data
• Analyse data
• Report

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Possible methods for collecting data

• Interviews
• Focus groups
• Observation
• Questionnaires
• Photographs, video and images
• Artworks / sculptures and things produced
• Letters, emails
• Journal / reflective log
• Drawings and sketchbooks
• Response cards/ Comments cards/Comments books
• Graffiti walls anticipated, actual and
  unexpected learning

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Reporting

• TOTC reporting framework
• Student teacher learning summaries (posters,
  presentations, written assignments)
• Celebration events
• Display in a setting