So basically what i've been doing all day is reading the heck out of how people evaluate such processes, Theres some useful stuff that i found in which we could also use in our project.... I will however, continue to look in to this what other methods we could use and how we could adapt them to our project, i've also sent you the timetable, finished it of.
Jamie has e-mailed about moodle page.
I've also been coming up with some rough questions we can ask mentor of the weeks for the sake of the interviews and the montage video at the end.
Interview mentor of the week – using Oliver’s cool interview
machine
Q. What do you feel you have achieved throughout the process
so far?
Q. What difficulties have you came across?
Q, Do you feel that you have helped students?
Q. What resources have you used?
Q. What are you most proud of?
Q. Is there anything that you can think of that can improve
the scheme?
By doing this we can gain evidence as to whether or not the
scheme is working. We can also liaise with the mentors to find out what problems
may of occurred. By creating video interviews it will also allow the mentors to
have something to keep at the end of the project, something to prove the work
that they’ve done. We then plan on creating a video montage from all of the
individual interviews and other footage that we may of gained throughout the
process.
Make a video montage for the mentor of the year awards, a
presentation with the statistics from our evaluations supported by our students
explaining the benefits. Need to
get across a unity with the university, and signs of improvement of progression
retention and success.
Focus group mentors to discuss how the process has gone,
it’ll will provide us with a relax environment where all mentors can discuss
freely about what worked and what didn’t work.
Questionnaires will allow us to gain quick statistical
information
Interviews will provide us with in depth scenarios of what
worked particularly well and what didn’t
Grade Statistics, I am unaware whether or not we would be
able to access the information of how grades have improved or not improved in
the past semester.
Ethnography will allow us to observe mentoring session and
allow us to analyse in depth detail about what is happening or what needs
changing.
Rating system, get all mentors to rate the STAMP scheme and
possibly get mentors to ask mentees to rate them
Create case study’s of mentors how student employment has
benefitted them
I don't think we could really get the grade statistics, I mean we could but it would be a long winded process. Also I don';t really know why we would want to, I don't think grades are the sort of thing we should evaluate the project on...
ReplyDeleteHow would some of these other methods work, perhaps you could work up example sheets and do a loose trial just on Jamie and me next week to see what information we can actually obtain from them
I think a lot of the qualitative evaluation will do well, but I know that sometimes the poeple at NW like more quantitative stuff related to grades. It might be worth looking into but if it is too much trouble than it won't be worth it. We have a system that does it for us based on the sessions attended.
ReplyDeleteHi Kirk,
ReplyDeletethis is interesting and something we should definitely look into next week. I think long-term we need to look at the effectiveness of the scheme in a hard-nosed quantitative way but for this pilot I don't think the length of project allows for impact on grades, if any, to be effectively measured as there will be so many other variables.
It would be really interesting to see how you go about analysing your schemes though and maybe we can develop something for further iterations of the scheme over here.
Luke, you're definitely right. We have a system that does most of the work for us. We'll definitley talk about some of this stuff next week if we have time. I really like the video montage idea. I think that would be really cool to show!
ReplyDeleteSee you soon!