PROCESSES Building your Top 5 to help you

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

PROCESS (eg. Survey of Brighton students) 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 DETAIL (What did you do? What did you learn? Why was it effective? )

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

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

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

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

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