YOCOMO - Assessing and Evaluating skills - European Training Strategy

Assessing and evaluating

… means developing evaluative practices to assess and implement appropriate change. Youth workers work to help and empower young people, the environment, and society to change for the better – supporting the development of collective and solidarity actions that stimulate change and transformation. Youth workers support actions that change policy and practice. This section also requires them to pay attention to the data gathered through online and digital tools.

The single skills are summarised in different headlines that illustrate what “assessing and evaluating” means for youth workers skill-wise. The “cluster headlines” do not name skills as such; these can be found through clicking on the lists.

Approaches to and tools for evaluation have to be carefully chosen. + -

Thus, helpful skills are:

to identify the most appropriate evaluative approach with regard to the needs of the young people and to the objectives of the activity
to ensure that the impact assessment of the young people’s needs suits the objectives identified

Youth workers deal with and manage data. + -

Therefore, a youth worker may be able to:

work with quantitative and qualitative information/data to evidence change
interpret information/data according to the context of the activity

Results need to be disseminated and youth workers can make use of them. + -

Thus, the following skills are helpful, too:

writing reports
presenting results to diverse audiences
planning a follow-up, taking the outcomes of the programme/project into account
incorporating practices that increase community impact

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