5.6 Evaluating strategy and presenting outcomes

For this activity you will need to print out the Skills Sheet, ‘Evaluating your strategy and presenting outcomes’: click here [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]   to open it.

Drawing on the records you have kept in your Skills File, comment critically on:

• the effectiveness of your strategy for improving your IT skills, identifying the factors that had an impact on your work;

• those aspects of IT where you feel you have made progress, and those where you feel you need more feedback or support;

• what you found useful in helping you to make progress, such as comments from tutors, other students or colleagues, particular resources, particular ways of working or planning your work;

• your own performance in presenting your outcomes as if you were assessing your own work; and

• how you intend to develop further your IT skills.

Refer to the figure below for an example of a completed Skills Sheet for this stage of the key skills framework.