This page is your gateway to a wide range of resources to support you in developing an evaluative mindset.  The resources in each of these sections will help you design and deliver effective evaluations. Use the dropdown menus in each theme to explore the content that you are interested in. 

Please note that there is information and resources about methods, ethics, evaluating student experience learning and teaching and the importance of research on separate pages.

Content

Evaluation in Higher Education
Theory of Change
Using Evidence for Impact
Making a Difference with your Data
Programme Level Evaluations


 

Evaluation in Higher Education

This video on Evaluation in Higher Education will introduce you to the theoretical underpinnings of evaluation as a social practice and STEER’s approach to developing an evaluative mindset at Sheffield Hallam University.


 

Theory of Change

This video provides a brief overview of what a theory of change and what you should include when creating one.


 

Using Evidence for Impact

Following Theory of Change, this two-part video series introduces the use of evidence for impact in designing your evaluation.


Sheffield Hallam has launched an institutional Evaluation Repository to raise awareness of practices and ideas that users can apply when designing and planning their own evaluations.


 

Making a Difference with your Data (Quantitative)

This video is an introduction to principles to consider when interpreting quantitative types of data that are used in Higher Education, with the aim of building viewers’ confidence, criticality and capacity for using evidence effectively. The videos and scenarios focus on survey data as a starting point of this initiative.


 

Programme Level Evaluations

This video provides a step by step guide to evaluating impact in large, complex, programmes.