Tools and resources

Key Evaluation Questions

These questions are what external evaluation and review will try to answer. You may find them useful for your self-assessment activities or you may develop questions of your own.

• Key Evaluation Questions

Tertiary Evaluation Indicators

These indicators are merit criteria that will be used in the external evaluation to determine what ‘good may look like’. You may find them useful in your self-assessment activities.

• Tertiary Evaluation Indicators

Supporting documents

Self-assessment material on these pages can also be found in the publication below.

• Using Evaluation to Strenghten Organisational Self-Assessment (PDF, 195KB)

Characteristics of high-performing organisations

Self-assessment is an integral part of continuous improvement in tertiary education. This document analyses the results of the first year of the external evaluation and review process for quality assurance, and looks at the connections between self-assessment and educational performance.

• External evaluation and review: The first year (PDF, 193KB)

For industry training organisations

The resource: Using evaluation to strengthen organisational self-assessment - ITO supplement provides supplementary material to help ITOs apply the evaluative approach to their role and functions. 

The resource incorporates the following documents:

• Policy and Guidelines for the Conduct of External Evaluation and Review - A supplement for Industry Training Organisations (PDF, 85KB) to be used in conjunction with Policy and Guidelines for the Conduct of External Evaluation and Review (PDF, 222KB).

• Evaluation Indicators for Industry Training Organisations (PDF, 64KB) - tertiary evaluation indicators for ITOs provide a basis for identifying quality and value in this sector.

Links and references

You may find the following links and references useful and interesting reading.

• Links and references

Videos

These videos clips were developed in New Zealand from work with tertiary organisations and evaluators taking part in an external evaluation and review trial.

• Jean King Video Clips

Examples

You may find the following fictional scenarios useful as examples of ways to develop evaluative thinking.

• Examples of self-assessment practice