Evaluation of educational aids

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The evaluation of educational aids (EVAS) is the largest documentation and evaluation process for the field of educational aids . The procedure is carried out by the Institute for Child and Youth Welfare in Mainz. It is also used in country-specific variants in Austria and Luxembourg . A version for Bulgaria is being worked on together with FICE Bulgaria.

history

EVAS was developed between 1997 and 1998 on the initiative of facility managers from various youth welfare facilities in southern Bavaria in cooperation with representatives from practice, associations and science. It was based on the experiences of the Youth Welfare Effects Study, the first large prospective research study in the field of educational support.

At the beginning of 1999 EVAS started in southern Bavaria in ten facilities. In the course of the year, further facilities from all over Bavaria were added and at the beginning of 2000 there were also EVAS users in other federal states. In the following years, EVAS was revised several times and adapted to the needs of youth welfare practice. In 2002 there was the first possibility to collect data electronically, in 2004 an online database was made available to the participants, which not only enabled data entry but also evaluations. As early as 2006, EVAS was "with 150 participating institutions and more than 17,000 recorded aids, whose clientele is spread across all 16 federal states, ... in this area the largest evaluation sample to date".

Up to July 2014, a total of 234 institutions and services for educational assistance took part in EVAS. With this procedure they documented 40311 help histories. In addition, the EVAS set of instruments forms the basis of more than 20 other impact-oriented evaluations, which led to results specific to the offer and type of help.

The IKJ is currently working on a new version of EVAS, which will enable the process to be used more flexibly and individually.

In addition to impact research, EVAS is also concerned with the qualification of pedagogical specialists. This is done through accompanying training and further education. For this purpose, a curriculum for the use of IT-based documentation procedures has been developed at European level. Various institutions from Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, Spain and Luxembourg were involved in the development and deployment. The implementation was funded under the title "Train KOSOZIAL" with funds from the EU program Leonardo da Vinci - Innovation Transfer.

Design and evaluation

With EVAS, data from young people is collected and documented alongside help, i.e. prospectively. This happens at different times: at the beginning of the help, every six months during the help process and at the end of the help.

The evaluations are carried out on different levels:

  • Individual case: These can be called up by every EVAS participant directly in the online database and enable the development of the young person to be shown.
  • Annual facility evaluations with different priorities:
    • Representation of the clientele
    • Description of psychosocial stress factors
    • Recording of the pedagogical-therapeutic interventions (process quality)
    • Presentation of the effects (quality of results)
    • Identification of the facility's internal strengths and optimization needs (structure, process and result quality)
  • Overall sample: On the basis of all the data collected, evaluations of politically relevant issues for youth (aid) appear at irregular intervals.

The overarching goal of the process is to further optimize the work in the facilities and services of the educational assistance and thereby improve the opportunities for socially disadvantaged young people to participate.

A study at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel highlights the high value of EVAS within German child and youth welfare. EVAS was also the subject of a seminar by Dirk Michael Nüsken at the University of Münster and the EFH Bochum .

literature

  • Michael Macsenaere , Eckhart Knab : Evaluation Study of Educational Aids - An Introduction. Lambertus-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-7841-1530-6 .
  • Franz Frey: Chances and Limits of Effect Orientation in Aid for Education . Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8350-7026-4 .
  • Michael Macsenaere, Gerhard Schemenau: Success and failure in home education. Results and experiences from the "Evaluation of Educational Aids" (EVAS). In: Our youth. Volume 60, 2008. ISSN  0342-5258
  • Klaus Esser: The retrospective evaluation of inpatient educational assistance by former children and young people . Inaugural dissertation at the University of Cologne. March 2010.
  • Joachim Klein, Jens Arnold, Michael Macsenaere (Eds.): InHAus. Individual educational assistance abroad . Lambertus Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7841-2045-4 .
  • EVAS data report across all types of aid 2013. Self-published by Institute for Child and Youth Welfare , Mainz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt, Schneider, Hohm, Pickartz, Macsenaere , Petermann, Flosdorf , Hölzl, Knab: Effects of educational aids and their backgrounds . (= Series of publications by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth. Volume 219). Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2002, ISBN 3-17-017906-3 .
  2. ^ G. Paries: Child and youth welfare is successful. In: Effects in the educational aids. EREV series 3/2006
  3. ^ Marc Schmid: Children and Adolescents in German Youth Welfare Institutions . Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Basel. April / May 2008.
  4. ↑ Review by Carola Kuhlmann (Bochum)
  5. ↑ Review by Bettina Schuhrke in: socialnet reviews, ISSN  2190-9245