Evaluation design model is intended to help answer three basic questions:

Evaluation design model is intended to help answer three basic questions:

1. Why should you evaluate your project?

2. What should you evaluate?

3. How should you evaluate?

In an effort to make the primer as practical and useful as possible, he divided the material into a series of eight sequential evaluation steps. Those steps represent a series of decisions and actions to be taken by SUCCEED investigators, each building on the one before. Each section of the primer addresses one step and includes three parts. First, the basic evaluation concepts and techniques are briefly explained. Second, an example is provided, illustrating the application of evaluation to an engineering education project. Finally, each section closes with a. series of recommended action steps that can serve as guidelines for project investigators.

Because the original document was designed to evaluate college engineering courses, Walker’s work has been edited and excerpted so that the design is more generic and appropriate for K-12 settings. People interested in evaluation are encouraged to view the original work so as to better capture Walker’s original intent.