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An evaluation toolkit for e-library developments

 
 

How to evaluate

This section of the evalued website is intended both for those new to evaluation and for those who wish to find out more about specific methods or aspects of EIS evaluation.

If you have little or no experience of evaluation, you may wish to follow through the nine stage process outlined here.

Alternatively, you can go straight to information about a particular aspect of evaluation by following the links.

The importance of evaluation

Managing your evaluation project

Stage 1: Decide the purpose of the evaluation

Stage 2: Identify relevant stakeholders

Stage 3: Decide what to evaluate

Stage 4: Choose the methods of data collection

Stage 5: Collect the data (staffing, timing, who to target)

Stage 6: Analyse the data

Stage 7: Present the findings

Stage 8: Use the findings (includes benchmarking)

Stage 9: Review the evaluation process and identify future actions and priorities

The Problems of Evaluation

Evaluation Planner

Our Evaluation Planner is an online application to help you decide which elements of the evalution are important to you, by deciding your purpose, who your stakeholders are, what your focus is, how you'll collect data and what post evaluation issues may be important. After reading our tutorials, why not try the Evaluation Planner