PrintIPDS Guide - Evidence
Types of evidence
This section provides guidance on what constitutes acceptable evidence.
What form should your evidence take?
- Written documents originally produced for another reason. These could include
reports written for the organisation; minutes of meetings held; completed staff
appraisal forms; strategic plans; departmental budgets and similar documents.
- Written documents produced for reasons of providing evidence. These could
include feedback reports written by colleagues who heard your presentation;
feedback from a line manager or mentor on your performance; a case study
written to demonstrate the part you played in undertaking a specific activity.
- Photographs, audio and video recordings. You could provide an audiotape of you undertaking a selection interview or a video clip of part of your presentation.
Where a piece of evidence is of substantial size (e.g. a management report or an audit report) you may provide only the relevant extracts.
How will I know if I have provided sufficient evidence?
Ultimately you will have to make the decision about whether the evidence you provide is sufficient but example 1 and example 2 will give some guidance.
Note Any evidence that is discovered to have been falsified with the aim of misleading the Institute as to its nature and/or as to who carried out a particular piece of work could lead to disciplinary action being taken against the student. |