Adult Learning & Skills
Family Learning Festival
Evaluating your event
· You need to evaluate your event for many reasons, including finding out what families have learned from the activities, how to improve the event for next year, accessing funding and enabling families to be part of the planning process. We do need some adult feedback from you to access your funding, too.
· However, choose non-threatening, fun ways of collecting the feedback during your event.
· Make instructions simple. Consider the abilities of the groups attending the activities such as literacy needs and their understanding of English language.
Listed here are some of the ways organisations have collected feedback in the past.
Form with questions (not essential)If you want to have a short form to evaluate your event, here are some questions to help you:
· How did you find out about the event?
· Which activity did you enjoy the most?
· Is there something else you would have liked to have done today?
· Is there something that you will try at home now?
· Would you come again next year?
Smiley faces
Put a row of faces against each question, smiley to scowling. Families can tick which face represents how they feel about a particular activity or question.
Turn children into journalists
Use tape recorders, dictaphones, questionnaires on clipboards and ask children to ask adults questions. These could include questions about the event, had they attended other learning before and what learning they would like to do afterwards. Then you could ask the adults to change places with the children.
Video the event
The event organiser could video the activities, including comments from the learners. This could provide feedback for the tutors as well as showing what activity took place and how well the learners enjoyed it.Feedback tree
Draw an outline of a large tree on paper and attach it to a wall. Provide leaf or flower-shaped post-its. People can write comments about the event on the post-its and attach them to the tree. You could use any outline shape for attachment of the post-its, the shape being appropriate to the theme of your activity.
Graffiti wall
Attach a large sheet of paper to a wall or on a table. Ask children and adults to write or draw their comments on the paper.
Passport or sticker book
Families are handed this when they arrive and get a different stamp or sticker for each activity they attend. Once completed they fill in their name and address, comments about the event and requests for further learning and hand it in to the organisers for a prize.