Evaluating Stage
Evaluating the effectiveness of your investigation
评估你调查的效果
This section covers the third and final stage of your investigation. It covers your own evaluation of how effective your investigation has been.
Your evaluation will cover seven sections and evidence may be submitted using more than one format providing the format(s) used are appropriate and all evidence requirements are met. Possible opportunities for presenting the evaluation could include a submission of work in a format suitable for a business report, though evidence for the specific elements could be presented using options which could include an oral presentation, a poster type presentation (eg a blog), a meeting or a question and answer session.
The format of the Evaluating stage of your project must be negotiated and agreed with your lecturer. The evaluation section of the practical assignment will be assessed by the submission which, if in written format, will likely be around 1,500 words. You may present this evidence in a manner which you consider appropriate but you must discuss and agreed this with your lecturer. Evidence may be submitted using more than one type of assessment instrument.
The evaluation is worth a maximum of 24 marks and you must gain at least 12/24 marks in order to pass this stage of the investigation.
Your evaluation should contain seven sections:
Section 1
Investigation outline
调查大纲
You should provide a brief and concise outline of the investigation, stating the purpose of the investigation. You should avoid extensive repetition from the other two sections of the investigation.
Section 2
Meeting your objectives
实现你的目标
In this section, you should consider how far each of your original objectives has been met. One way to tackle this is to take each of your original objectives in turn and give reasons to show why each was met or not met as the case may be. You must mention any modifications to your objectives that you made during the course of the investigation and explain why you did this and discuss how far the changes helped or hindered your investigation. You should also comment on any alternative courses of action that you considered but rejected.
Section 3
Effectiveness of the Planning and Developing stages
规划和开发阶段的有效性
In this section, you have to comment on those aspects of the Planning and Developing stages which worked well, and those aspects which did not work so well. You have to cover your brief, your plan and your report separately. You must cover three separate aspects, one for the planning brief, one for the plan and one for the developing report.
Section 4
Assessment of the primary and secondary sources
一手资料和二手资料的评估
You must make an assessment of the reliability and validity of the primary and secondary sources of information. You should consider such issues as the impartiality (or not) of the sources, the age, relevance and suitability of the information obtained from the sources. Marks will be awarded for a credible, reflective, evaluative assessment that recognises the strengths and limitations of the information used.
Section 5
Assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of your report
评估报告的优缺点
You must assess at least one strength and at least one weakness in this section. There is no upper limit on the number of strengths and weaknesses that you discuss. However, you must support each strength or weakness with credible reasons so you are unlikely to have space to cover a large number of strengths and weaknesses. Once again, marks will be awarded for valid and credible reasons and for well thought out and logical justification based on careful reflection of what happened.
Section 6
Recommendations for future investigations
对今后调查的建议
In this final section, you must set out recommendations for future investigations based on your experience in carrying out this investigation. Your recommendations should be based on the five sections above.
Section 7
Assessment of new skills and knowledge gained
新技能和新知识的评估
You must assess new skills and knowledge that you have gained during the process of the investigation. You should make specific reference back to your initial personal assessment of your skills, and give an honest appraisal of the skills and knowledge that have been gained since that initial appraisal. It may be appropriate that you make reference to where in your investigation you feel that the new skills and knowledge were gained.
In order to pass your investigation, you must gain at least 12/24 marks for the Evaluating stage.