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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

iPod Project Evaluation: A Beginning

Probably the simpliest way to start thinking about evaluation is to begin with three steps:

1) Decide what it is that you want to accomplish with your project.
2) Decide what the world will look like if you actually accomplish these things.
3) Decide what evidence you could collect to demonstrate that you accomplished these things, or you could show as examples to others.

We usually think about that first step as defining the goals or specific objectives for our projects. Exploring the second step helps to determine if the goals are measurable. (If we can't describe what is going to be different as a result of the project and what that will look like, then we probably can't measure it.) And finally what data or artifacts would we have to collect to determine (or support our claims) that something had changed as a result of our efforts.

Before we get together and start thinking about assessment and evaluation of our iPod projects, please consider these three steps.

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