Evaluate Europe projects
This area of the Evalaute-Europe web site provides working spaces for different European projects researching and developing ideas and products about evaluation.
If you would like your project to have a space on the site please contact us.
The projects
The site currently is host to four projects: E-val 2, the Capitalisation and Evaluation Network (CERN), E-val 3 and Eval-4 TESTSCAN. All the projects have recieved funding from the European Commission Leonardo da vinci Programme. Although the funding for E-val 2 ended in December 2002, development work on the products continues. The CERN network funding ended in November 2003, but the partners are planning to continue with the network.
E-val 2 is invloved in the development of ICT based tools for evaluation.
The CERN network is undertaking research into evalaution and developing handbooks and training programmes for evaluators.
E-val 3 is examining the evaluation of e-learning.
More details of the three projects can be found in project folders.
Whilst the projects are undertaking different activities they share a common underpinning ethos. We are committed to:
- Evaluation as an essential element in the design and planning of any project, programme or innovative process.
- Evaluation that is integral to programme activities and not `bolted-on’.
- Evaluation that spans the whole lifecycle of a programme and which is formative as well as summative.
- Evaluation that is client centred, based on a non-dependency relationship and leading to long-term client autonomy and sustainability.
- Evaluation that recognises the diversity of stakeholders and responds to their different needs by offering a wide range of evaluation products, tools and processes.
- Evaluation as a skilled intervention and a specialist field of knowledge and practice.
- Evaluation that is ethical, professional and responsible.
- Evaluation which is informed by a range of different approaches and theoretical perspectives to ensure congruence between the evaluation process and the policies, processes and practices being evaluated.
