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4.8Step Six: Evaluating the Impact of the ChangeIt is probably not so easy to evaluate the impact of a change project. Simple quantitativeindicators such as the amount ofpeople impacted, the amount of teachers An integrated model of planningtrained or the number of positive results and evaluation is the so-calledin student evaluation forms do not expose Plan-Do-Check-Act model ormuch about an actual change in students’ simply the PDCA model. The ideaexperiences. Moreover, as students will is that all these stages are explicitlyprobably not have experienced both the integrated in the change project,situation before and after the implementationof the change project, students check whether what was plannedmaking it possible to actuallythemselves will also find it hard to judge has actually been achieved. In thethe impact of the change after the implementationof Step Five. Standard evalu-to find out the differences between›check‹ phase, it is important to tryation models are therefore probably inadequatein assessing whether or not the achieved. In the ›act‹ phase, it is keywhat was planned and the resultschange which led to the implementation to find out the reasons why plannedof the scl approach was successful. Luckily,quality assurance practices in higher to apply the appropriate changes toresults did not materialise and to tryeducation provide some tools to evaluate the plans.the impact of the change undertaken.Changing the Mindset27