F.5

EVALUATION

How will you evaluate, during and after the partnership, whether the aims of the partnership have been met and the expected impact has been achieved? To ascertain students´ and teachers’ opinions, attitudes and contributions to project ideas, questionnaires and interviews will be used. The use of various methods of media and ICT will enable the students and teachers to evaluate the project and to express their opinions on the project blog page. An English test/competition will be organized to assess pupils' level of competence in English regarding CEFR. Each participating school will establish project portfolios containing representative pieces of textual, art, electronic, photographic and other work connected with our project. We will use our Wiki as an e-portfolio. In that way we will encourage collaborative learning and information sharing as well as increase the teachers’ engagement and participation. The portfolio will contain not only copies of exchanged items, and descriptions of all included activities, but also responses published in the local press and other documents of how the project was publicized. The jointly published book will be representative evidence of a successful collaboration. The final effect will be further collaboration and preparation of new projects in the Lifelong Learning Programme. ****
 * While carrying out the project, we will use e-mail and ordinary mail, and we will connect with participating colleagues using Skype or Messenger calls, chats and conferences. At the project meetings we will analyze individual contributions of participating teachers to the project activities and emphasize the importance of everybody being fully involved in the process of decision-making, including the formulation of necessary conclusions. Date on the progress of the partnership and its impact on the participating pupils and teachers, including the participating institutions, will be maintained. We will use our evaluation tools: discussions, observation, e-mail, questionnaires and interviews. We will evaluate the project during personal visits to participating countries and through the teachers’ level of involvement and enthusiasm. All involved teachers will be able to assess their students’ progress through inner school tests and external examinations. During each visit to a partner school, the teachers from abroad, participating children and local people will complete the same questionnaires. After the project meetings the host teachers will evaluate the success of the meeting, the impact on them, and the results will be published on our Wiki.