Educational Evaluation is a quality assurance process, which allows us to ‘see how well we are doing what we say we do’. For us in CISV this means finding out how successful we are in making the Statement of Purpose a reality for all our participants.

We view educational evaluation as a two part process:

Monitoring: The collection of evidence during a Programme.

Evaluation: Putting the evidence together to look for trends, patterns and results, so that judgements can be made.

By adopting a ‘goals based’ approach to Programme planning, the Programme committees have identified the most important Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge that participants should have the opportunity to develop. With these in place it is possible to structure our Programmes and plan activities in order to achieve these goals. Educational evaluation helps us to ensure that both of these aspects of planning contribute to the achievement of the goals. Placing greater emphasis on planning activities in line with Programme goals and the Theme means we are better placed to improve the quality of our Programmes.

The link between planning and evaluation is very important. This is why both these words are linked together in the title of the Programme Director’s Planning and Evaluation Form (PDPEF). This form requires activity planning to be linked to educational goals and the monitoring of progress to take place throughout the Programme. This means that the evaluation is an ongoing process rather than something that happens at the mid point and end point of the Programme.

Village Evaluation

Interchange Evaluation

Seminar Camp Evaluation

Summer Camp Evaluation

For questions and answers about the 2011 on-line PDPEF for Interchange, IPP, Seminar Camp, Summer Camp, Village and Youth Meeting, click here.