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Evaluation?

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Commitment, ownership, change?

SEALLL, the project

SEALLL aims to improve the quality of content, delivery, management andorganisation of adult learning throughthe introduction and promotion of self-evaluation in formal,non-formal and informal adult education.

SEALLL concept

SEALLL focuses on self-evaluation as a learning process. A culture combining self-evaluation with ownership of processes and outcomes is vital for an evaluation process to have a real chance to make an impact and lead to change. Therefore the priorities of SEALLL are a bottom-up approach and guiding the ‘initiators’ in the process of conducting their own evaluation.

Self-evaluation

Self-evaluation is seen to be self-initiated,internally organised and self-regulated. It should aim at the professionalisation of decision-making, at improving the achievement of the organisation’s own objectives and at enriching the quality of training, learning and management in the organisation. Where legitimacy and accountability based on externally imposed indicators are at stake, evaluation processes are referred to as external, even when they arepartly internally organised.

Self

The ‘self’ in self-evaluation can be an actor or a group of actors within the organisation: an individual suchas a teacher, trainer, learner, programmer, or director; or a group of individuals e.g. a group of teachers, the management team, or indeed the whole staff.

Evaluation is only considered self-evaluation if the initiator(s) also evaluate their own role in the process that is beingevaluated.

Instruments

Instruments are ‘evaluation instruments’ for collecting or gathering the necessary information. They are only self-evaluation instruments if they are used in a self-evaluation context.

Self-evaluation

Initiator

Evaluation objects

Learners Teachers Developers Management

Learning

Teaching

Program

Organization and Management

External relations

SE processes

• Issues to be evaluated• Goals of evaluation and related /indicators• Target group(s)• Information needed• Methods and instruments of evaluation• Organisation of the evaluation process• Information processing• Identification of criteria/evidence• Analysis/interpretation• Reporting• Division and allocation of tasks• Time schedule

SEALLL products

• Manual in 6 languages• Website with all material for free• Practical examples on the site• Grundtvig courses• In-service training days• Cooperation with NA

Strong points

• Low threshold – accessible material• Bottom-up - ownership of processes• Working with real problems of the participants• General, generic, widely applicable & transferable• Building a culture of self-evaluation• Building ownership for change

Difficulties• Still requires training• Creating indicators