Evaluating

Evaluating

During the Course Stage

Evaluation Type

Process/Program

Things you will need to think about

  • Program-level assessment
  • Course-level assessment
  • Student Retention/Attrition rates
  • Engagement outcomes
  • Content implemented as intended
  • Knowledge change (outcome)
  • Participant satisfaction (as outcome): useful, relevant, easily tolerated, understandable, duration

Ways to measure your goal

  • Course/term completion statistics
  • Course grades (group level)
  • Term pass rate
  • Student satisfaction
  • Course attendance/adherence
  • Course evaluations (formal/informal)
  • Instructor evaluations
  • Time spent in instruction
  • Resources used (identified at pre-stage)
  • Course content & evaluations implemented as outlined in syllabus

Resources and Strategies 

  • Admissions department/Registrar’s Office data
  • Feedback on how to improve content delivery (survey/Focus Group with students or program faculty/curriculum or pedagogic committee)
  • Student perceptions of usefulness
  • Identify challenges of implementation (survey/Focus Group with educators)
  • ISWP wheelchair service provision basic test
  • Wheelchair Skills Program Certification Exam
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Clinical Impact

Things you will need to think about

  • Empower staff and clinicians to confidently engage in wheelchair content/cases
  • Peer to peer education via in-service on cases relevant to the particular setting

Ways to measure your goal

  • Create resource binder/online Drive with content to reference
  • Case study examples with treatment guidelines, outcomes, etc.

Resources and Strategies 

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Sustainability

Things you will need to think about

  • Evaluate programs and request feedback
  • Pivot in new directions/focus content as necessary
  • With each programme objective set a criteria to monitor, measure and respond to meeting objective throughout the process: (e.g. evaluate each aspect of the delivery process identifying what works, what requires further development, identify gaps)
  • Determine if content is meeting context specific needs

Ways to measure your goal

  • Stay up-to-date on relevant competencies using a checklist

Resources and Strategies 

  • Create survey/questionnaire specific to program and context
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