Summary:  This deliverable sets out the approach to be adopted for the evaluation of PALETTE design methodology. It is not concerned at this stage with the evaluation of the tools and services to be developed during the project but with the project method itself. It uses the RUFDATA methodology (RUFDATA standing for Reasons and purposes, Uses, Foci, Data and Evidence, Audience, Timing, and Agency of the evaluation) as a means of profiling the approach, describes the evaluation approach, defines its indicators from a usage point of view, and sets out a plan for the evaluation. It also contains as appendices examples of the production of 'provisional stabilities' (depictions of the project to aid its development) and a statement of PALETTE method developed by WP1 as a reference.

 

Summary: This deliverable brings together the evaluations of the experience of the PALETTE project as a way of working using the broad evaluation methodology developed in D.EVA.01. It builds on the trials of  instruments and methods (developed in Task 1) based on agreements on the administration protocols with project work packages. It uses data (on-line questionnaires, interviews) procured in three sweeps of data collection since the beginning of the project by constructing 'provisionally stable' scenarios and experiences. Through providing a formative feedback on the project, the deliverable provides resources for training sessions based on the scenarios and experiences identified.

 

Summary: This deliverable brings together the experience of the PALETTE project on formative evaluation and is in the tradition of evaluation as knowledge. In other words it contributes to our understanding of how evaluation is used and understood in a complex project like PALETTE. It details the way the evaluation’s provision of 'provisionally stable' scenarios and experiences has been used and by whom.

• D.EVA.05: PALETTE evaluation framework and instruments (M30)

Summary: This report sets out to improve the understanding of evaluation taking place in the complex context of a large multicultural, trans-disciplinary project like PALETTE. To embrace the wide variety of types of evaluation taking place, this report goes beyond conventional visions of evaluation as the province of professional evaluators to include moments of evaluation embedded in other activities carried out by what might be called lay evaluators.