About the Evaluation Toolkit
Welcome to the University of Manchester's Evaluation Toolkit!
Our toolkit supports collaborative, evidence-based decision-making and aims to facilitate evaluation as a tool for learning and improvement for everyone to use. Here, you can explore a wide range of resources, guidance, and tools tailored to assist your evaluation practices across varying levels of impact, from course-specific projects to cross-institutional initiatives.
The evaluation toolkit has been built on five key principles, inspired by the Evaluation Collective manifesto in the higher education sector, take a look at the video below for an overview of these, and why they were chosen:
This toolkit is split up into three different areas, these are:
1. A place to contact evaluation advocates across the organisation, attend sessions and events where you can speak to experts on different types of evaluation, such as for Access Participation Plans (APP) and Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) activities.
2. Guidance, tools and examples to draw on to help you evaluate your practice and disseminate the results of your evaluation
3. Internal and external resources such as Theory of Change template documents and evaluation planning tools to help you deliver impactful outcomes for teaching and learning.
Evaluation Advocate Network
Join the evaluation advocate network to discuss evaluation topics and share lessons learnt. Visit this page to attend workshops, events, and drop-in clinics.
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Evaluation Guidance
Find useful guidance on how to design, plan, review and disseminate your evaluation projects.
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Evaluation Resources
Access templates and tools to help you plan and deliver your evaluation.
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Background / Acknowledgements
This evaluation toolkit has been designed and developed by The Institute of Teaching and Learning in partnership with Fran Hooley (Evaluation & Impact project lead), Haadia Bahemia (student Partner) and Jack Walker (Student Data, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer) from the Access and Success Team.