1. Building your ‘Top 5’ to help you complete your Evaluation
PROCESSES
Building your ‘Top 5’
to help you complete your Evaluation

2. PROCESS (eg. Survey of Brighton students)
DETAIL (What did you do? What did you learn? Why was it effective?)
Improving a skill, or learning a new one
Finding a better way to do something
Investigating a local phenomenon
Doing an experiment that generates data
Testing people’s perceptions on an issue
Seeking perspectives on an issue

3. CREDIBILITY of the process – how credible are the sources you used
CREDIBILITY of the process – how credible are the sources you used? (consider author, publisher, location of source)
RANKING
SOURCE
WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

4. VALIDITY of the process – how valid are the sources you used
VALIDITY of the process – how valid are the sources you used? (consider accuracy, author, source, sample size, source location, date)
RANKING
SOURCE
WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

5. RELIABILITY of the process – how reliable are the sources you used
RELIABILITY of the process – how reliable are the sources you used? (current, credibility, cross-checking, peer-reviewed, referenced)
RANKING
SOURCE
WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

6. USEFULNESS of the process - contribution to answering sub-questions, led you to other info, amount of info gained, key/emerging findings.
RANKING
SOURCE
WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples 1 2 3 4 5

7. OVERALL TOP BEST 5 PROCESSES
RANKING
SOURCE
WHY? (REASONS FOR RANK ORDER) How do you know? Give specific examples based on credibility, reliability, bias, usefulness, validity, accoracy. 1 2 3 4 5