PROJECT PROCESSES ORGANISATION MENTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES PARTICIPANTS' RESPONSIBILITIES ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES EVALUATION OF PROJECT OUTCOMES EVALUATION RESOURCES AND SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT ACTIVITIES AND DEADLINES

Mentors and participants in the project will have access to both the Evaluation Cookbook produced by the U.K. based Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative, and the Flashlight Program, produced by the U.S. based Teaching and Learning Technology Program.

Evaluation Cookbook

The Learning Technology Dissemination Initiative at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, has published a resource called the Evaluation Cookbook. As described on the website http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/cookbook/contents.html, it is a practical guide to evaluation methods and includes:

• "recipes" for different evaluation methods;
• useful information drawing on the expertise of a range of practising evaluators;
• a framework for planning and preparing your evaluation;
• guidelines for reporting and acting on the results;
• short exemplars of evaluation studies using some of the methods described.

A printed version is supplied with this handbook, and frequent reference is made to the 'recipes' described therein.

Flashlight

As one of the Annenberg/CPB Projects, the Flashlight Program offers a comprehensive approach to the evaluation of technology-based projects. The website (http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/ftools.html#Flashlight_Online) provides links to the Current Student Inventory (CSI) which consists of an Evaluation Handbook and a well-tested bank of items for use in surveys and interviews. A license has been purchased for project participants and mentors to access the Flashlight materials. The comprehensive collection of questions may be particularly useful in designing an evaluation plan.

More useful evaluation resources are described in Appendix 1.