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Design & Development > Analysing
Analysing an evaluation process
Each possible approach to evaluation
has its own issues about analysis, where analysis is being used
in a very general way.
Analysis is also tied into
the skills and abilities of the evaluator.
It is OK to be able to generate
a few bar charts from Excel but you need to understand the limitations
of the analysis you are doing.
From the other side, trying
to establish the content of qualitative materials looks easy until you
have to justify the interpretations you have made of the data.
There is also the level of
analysis that is implicit in the tasks that you are doing. What is meant
by this is that some types of data need a certain level of analysis before
you can make sense of them.
Someone generates an evaluation
approach where survey-based data is collected at the beginning the subject
and at the end. To analyse this data you must understand how to do:
2 group comparisons - eg.
t-test, Mann-Whitney U-test
Basic Analysis of Variance
to compare multiple groups
Alternatively, you favour
qualitative research and carry out interviews. You must be able to use
one of the various means that belong with this type of research. Simply
reporting what people say is unlikely to help in completing evaluation
reports (depending on your discipline).
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