AFTER: Why evaluate literacy and numeracy teaching in a foundation learning course?

There are all kinds of different reasons and purposes for building evaluation processes into your training. You may wish to use evaluation to achieve any or all of the goals listed below.

• Measure your own effectiveness in delivering embedded literacy and numeracy training.
• Help you plan, design and manage future literacy and numeracy interventions.
• Assist your organisation allocation programme resources and funds more efficiently.
• Improve the quality of your own or others’ literacy and numeracy teaching.
• Report on the outcomes of the literacy and numeracy teaching – accountability, in other words.
• Present alternatives for decision-makers to consider.

What are your reasons…?