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In 2000-2001, pilot projects are being conducted by the national
staff development program, Reframing the Future, to assist organisations
in the vocational education and training arena to become high-performing.
The role of the participative evaluator, John Mitchell, is to assist
the pilot project teams in 2001-2 to benefit from involvement in
the program. Participative evaluation requires the evaluator to
provide feedback to pilot project teams during the course of their
pilot projects, commenting on their use of resources, their processes
and their outputs. Participative evaluation also involves providing
pilot project teams with challenging questions to assist them to
evaluate their own progress. The evaluator is to identify, through
research and through consultation with the pilot projects, effective
processes for establishing effective strategic and change management
projects.
Additionally, the evaluator will:
- provide further advice to the participating project teams on
the literature on strategic and change management, extending the
literature review in Chapter 3 of High-Skilled High-Performing
VET
- provide further advice on the development of high-performing
VET organizations, extending the research in High-Skilled High-Performing
VET and Evidence of High-skilled VET Practitioners and
High-Performing VET organizations
- assist the program mentor and maintain regular contact with
the program mentor and the pilot projects for evaluation purposes;
- document the development of the three pilot projects and examples
of good practice, for dissemination to those who may be considering
the establishment of the same;
- produce a final evaluation report which will inform directions
and criteria for the selection of projects in 2002 and, together
with the mentor, a research paper for a VET conference.
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