View the infographic Building a Culture of Evaluation: 30 Ideas to Apply to Your Organization.

For the purposes of this course regard evaluation as the judgement of a process and assessment as the judgement of individual performances.

Both assessment and evaluation should be regarded as positive processes designed to establish how successful we have been and what we need to do in order to improve. We need to both evaluate and assess aspects of technology use in the school in order to:

• Recognise all achievements
• Develop capacity for self- and peer-assessment
• Plan effectively
• Focus on how you learn
• Focus on how learners learn
• Focus on classroom practice
• Provide sensitive and constructive feedback
• Foster motivation
• Promote understanding of vision and objectives
• Help you know how to improve

This is called Assessment (evaluation) for learning. You will probably have deduced by now that a culture of evaluation goes hand-in-hand with a culture of learning in the workplace (see Lesson 9.4). It is also a collective process.