Improve impact
Continuously learn from and improve your activities using evaluation data, as well as sharing learnings with the community.
Why does this pledge matter?
We need to build a better evidence-base to identify what delivers the greatest impact. Code Signatories should share their insights and learnings to help the community create stronger programmes.
Ambition
Develop and share an understanding of what works to drive continuous improvement and increase investment in activities with proven, evidence-based impact.
To meet this pledge you should...
- Evaluate your activities and use your findings to drive continuous improvement while sharing your learnings with Code Signatories
Top tips to meet this pledge
- Develop, build and deliver your activities with KPIs, learning outcomes and specific goals in mind
- Use the Tomorrow's Engineers research and evaluation resources to help improve how you evaluate your activities
- Develop a theory of change for your activity
- Collect feedback on your activity to measure and review the impact of your activities. Use this to drive continuous improvement
- Share your learnings with the Code community via a case study, Tomorrow's Engineers resource, Code Connect, our online workshop programme or at Tomorrow's Engineers Live
Resources that can help you with this pledge:
Calculating reach for STEM engagement activities
In order to know the impact and value of STEM engagement activities we need to know who we are impacting on, and how many people we have reached.
This guide describes some of the benefits and challenges of using qualitative approaches in evaluation, as well as some things to consider when planning to use qualitative methods.
EngineeringUK Measures Bank: example questions that can be included in programme evaluations