Interim evaluation report

I have now finished the interim evaluation report. It has been hard to write, as instead of having too much data to analyse (which I had feared would be the case) I haven't had a lot to work with. Feedback from students has mostly come in the form of questionnaires and discussion posts and I have been unable to interview as many tutors as I would have liked. Because the Diploma in IT is delivered solely by the College, there have been no opportunities for collaboration between the different stakeholders, which in turn has limited what I could evaluate.


I hope that in the Spring term things will be different. The learners will be going on work experience and the Mahara ePortfolio will provide opportunities for more sharing of information and feedback between employers, tutors and learners.


Also, next term I will be extending the evaluation to include a group of students, who are studying on the Higher Diploma in Creative Media. These students are 14 and 15 year olds who are based at a local school and they only attend the College once a week, so this presents an ideal opportunity to look at the effects of the support that can be offered by different features of the Learner Portal whilst they are away from the College.