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How to talk to senior leaders about evaluation…. Date: 5th June This session focused on effectively engaging leaders in discussions about evaluation. This session recognised the difficulties in developing a culture of evaluation within institutions and the importance of leadership. Often the onus of change is placed on practitioners without the necessary resources. Evaluation can sometimes…
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Does Evaluation Matter to Students? Scrutinizing the role of student voices in Higher Education policy and practice A participatory event organised with the Evaluation Collective as part of the Public Policy Challenge Project “What Matter to Students?” Date: Friday 24th May This session aimed to scrutinize the ends and means of embedding student voices in access…
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The UEF (https://evaluationforall.org) is an open access tool for planning evaluations or for gathering evaluative evidence created by Prof Stella Jones-Devitt and Prof Liz Austen. It is designed to enable development of evaluation capabilities and to increase your confidence in evaluating change. The UEF provides a platform for you to build an evidence base for…
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Defining evaluation is messy (Gullickson, 2020) and within the teaching and learning space, evaluation can be conflated with the metrification of teaching such as the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (Lorenz, 2015). On 22nd November 2023, this event explored how we can better define evaluation within the teaching and learning space, the benefits of evaluation from…
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Blog post by Dr Julian Crockford (Sheffield Hallam University) If you’ve read any of the blogs on the Evaluation Collective website, attended any of our events or read our (forthcoming!) Wicked Evaluation Issue zines, you’ll have noticed that we often talk about wicked problems or issues, whether these occur in the broader areas of our…
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The Evaluation Collective hosted an open discussion group on 22nd June where participants were invited to share research ethics challenges and wicked issues they encounter when researching and evaluating HE student access, participation and success issues. The idea was to crowdsource responses, and possibly solutions, to the challenged we face. A recording of the event…
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Blog post by Elizabeth Rahman (University of Oxford) and Jonathan Schulte (London School of Economics). On the same day that TASO released its report on the impact of curriculum reform on the ethnicity degree awarding gap, a group of academics, practitioners and evaluators from across the sector – including Sheffield Hallam, the University of Cambridge,…
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Statement by the Evaluation Collective on the OfS Guidance on Access and Participation Plans, April 2023. Since the appointment of the new Director of Fair Access and Participation in late 2021, evaluation has been much higher on the regulatory agenda. In April 2022, the Evaluation Collective came together to publish a Manifesto which challenged aspects…
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Blog post by Dr Liz Austen The Evaluation Collective defines evaluation as an approach which helps to understand and explore what works and doesn’t work in a given context and is of value to stakeholders. The aim of evaluation is actionable evidence-informed learning and continuous improvement of process and impact. We stand against the performative,…
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Evaluation Collective Networking Event: What are the ‘wicked’ evaluation issues in higher education?
On 14th December 2022, this networking event provided an opportunity to explore evaluation issues that the HE sector might be too afraid to ask! There is regulatory pressure across the HE sector to know and understand what is working/not working to support student outcomes, but often a lack of confidence and resource for colleagues to…
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