Community Learning Development Resource 603 – 12
PROGRAMME EVALUATION – REFLECTIVE INTERVIEW
SUMMARY
A specimen evaluation activity for use by participants completing a community learning practical training and development programme.
Instructions – for working in pairs
Use the questions below to undertake a structured interview with your partner. Go for depth and quality. Encourage your partner to analyse and reflect on their experience of the programme.
1. What were your expectations of the programme when you started on it? Has it met those expectations?
2. What had been the high and low points of your involvement? What have you enjoyed most?
3. Can you identify your personal learning in terms of:
- Developing your skills?
- Extending your knowledge base?
- Seeing things differently?
4. Have the methods used on the programmes suited your style of learning?
5. In what ways, if any, has your work practice change as a result of coming on the programme?
6. Are you now able to identify – and evidence – the impact your work has on clients / customers and users?
7. In what ways have the workplace task giving you different insights into your own organisation?
8. Has your involvement in the programme enabled you to add significantly to your contacts?
9. Can you now contribute your organisation’s understanding of its role in developing individual and community capacity?
10. Can you see ways in which your organisation might be more effective in its partnerships?
11. If you were responsible for delivering the programme, in what ways might you change it?
A reflective interview or simply having a conversation can be used to gain evaluative feedback – it has much to recommend it rather that the use of a questionnaire!