Chapter 2

Just looking at Chapter 2, the lit. review.

Some feedback from Marina, try to use some more action words to stress the need for what i did and why.

I then came across a table summarising the articles i used in the lit review - this will be fabulous as an appendix - or perhaps even as part of the intro to chapter 2?

Whilst doing that I recalled and reread an article from Oliver, McBean, Conole & Harvey (2002). They had developed an online toolkit to help evaluators of projects get to grips with evaluation. On the premise that a one size does not fit all:

The toolkit involves six steps, derived from the literature and from research into evaluation practice:

1. Identification of the audience for the evaluation
   
2. Selection of an evaluation question
3. Choice of an evaluation methodology
4. Choice of data collection methods
5. Choice of data analysis methods
6. Selection of the most appropriate format(s) for reporting the findings to the audience 

(p.200-201).

This is eerily similar to mine. however their tool took 4.5 hours to complete and the authors agree that "Although it could be argued that this reflects the complex demands of evaluation, and thus is not unreasonable, it does mean that the toolkit is ill-suited to small, quick studies." (p.207).