Which tool should the club use?
A youth club needs a way to record who comes each week. Three free tools are on offer. Everyone has a favourite.
Favourites are not evidence. Today you run a small, fair evaluation, and write down what you found so that someone else can check it.
Key words
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Evaluation | judging how well something meets a need, using evidence |
| Parameters | what is judged, for whom, against what, and over how long |
| Criteria | the things you judge by, such as cost and ease of use |
| Weight | a number saying how much a criterion matters |
| Score card | a table that scores each option on each criterion |
| Requirement | what a business needs, written as one clear sentence |
| Findings | what the evaluation showed |
| Limitation | a reason the findings may not be fully reliable |
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By the end of this lesson
Note
I can set the parameters of an evaluation, choose and use a technique and a tool, and record my findings.
Starter
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Starter
3 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.
Worked example: the club attendance tool
| Step | What you do | In the club case |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Parameters | What, for whom, against what, how long | Three tools, for 3 volunteers, against 3 criteria, tried for 2 weeks |
| 2 Select | Pick technique and tool | A weighted score card, plus a short interview with the volunteers |
| 3 Apply | Use the same test for every option | Each volunteer tries all three tools and scores them 1 to 5 |
| 4 Record | Write the findings and limits | A table, the total, and a note that only 3 people took part |
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Step 1: clarify the parameters
Before you test, write down what is judged, for whom, against which criteria and for how long. These are the parameters.
Without them, each person judges something different, and the result cannot be compared.
Quick check
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Quick check
3 questionsYour answers are marked here and are not kept. A college account keeps every student’s marks.