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3. MEASURE LEARNING >> Steps in the process
Woman and boy measuring ingredients for paper-making and seal-making workshop at Hampshire County Archives Service

Outlines seven steps for assessing learning in your museum, archive or library and provides a range of tools and techniques to get started.

  1. Set objectives - agree what you want to achieve by collecting evidence of learning
  2. Review your existing data to see if you already collect evidence of learning
  3. Select your method 
  4. Develop your tools
  5. Code data 
  6. Analyse data - quantitative and qualitative data
  7. Present evidence

The eighth important step - using evidence to win support for learning - is in the Win support section of the web site.

'We are starting to build in Generic Learning Outcomes as a way of sharing common language learning in the Trust. We hope this will go from strength to strength in future.'

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Clare Rogers, National Trust

Steps in the process