Evaluation+methods

Some of the different ways in which we can gather feedback from workshop participants:


 * Evaluation forms (the yellow sheets)
 * Online questionnaire, using Ultimate Survey, for example
 * What have you learnt from this session? / What questions still remain? Post its, last 5 mins of session
 * Phone calls / email contact before / after session to ask what questions participants would like answered / remain to be answered
 * At beginning of workshop distribute a card on which participants write questions they'd like answers to. Score these off as session proceeds. If any remain, put email address on card and hand back to facilitator
 * How are you doing? / what would you like in the next part of the session? Verbal, part way through
 * Informal discussion / verbal feedback (eg what was the most / least useful about this sesion) at end of session
 * Muddy points / boot grit feedback - see brief description from Mark Huxham in this article
 * One minute paper. One minute papers, article by Steve Draper
 * Stop / Start / Continue using flip charts / post its
 * Evaluation wheel - draw large circle with sectors for different aspects of workshops. Participants draw lines from centre to circumference to indicate opinion Example 1 / [|Example 2]
 * Confidence log using evaluation wheel, tree or ladder - to gauge where people are with their learning Example 1 / Example 2 /Example 3
 * Write the facilitator a postcard to suggest improvements for next time - distribute postcards in last 5 mins of session
 * Classroom voting
 * Online noticeboard eg Wallwisher or lino online stickies


 * I'm thinking about trying out a persistent online feedback page in my Video Workshop, where participants are asked to leave a comment, perhaps like wallwisher or similar, suggesting one thing they loved about the workshop and one thing we could improve. This would build up every time I run the workshop and hopefully show participants that previous feedback was valued and acted upon, as well as collating positive comments to encourage others to take part.


 * Useful links**

How many ways can we evaluate a workshop? Useful article from the Australian Institute of Family Studies that discusses five different interesting approaches to evaluation: daily newspaper, daily star evaluation, scrapbook, reflection tree and final evaluation form.

Do happy sheets work? Blog post from Donald Clark.