Evaluating Lecturer Development Programmes: received wisdom or self-knowledge?
Citation
Bamber, V. (2007) Evaluating Lecturer Development Programmes:
received wisdom or self-knowledge?.
Abstract
Theme: This workshop calls educational developers to seek meaningful, contextualised evaluation data for the
lecturer development programmes they run. It considers published attempts to evaluate LDPs, and
outlines the evaluation processes put in place for research-informed evaluation activities in one
institution. The main argument is that developers should frame evaluations within their own contexts,
without seeking the general truths which comprehensive evaluations tend to address. In promoting a
dialogue about how to fill the evaluation gap, the workshop should be of interest to all educational
developers who are seeking meaningful evaluation outcomes.