NGRF - UK National Guidance Research Forum

Note my message on the next level up, that this list is now wildly out of date and only usable as a model of how websites might be categorised as contributing to guidance outcomes (using the DOTS model in this case). I have no resources to update the list nor access to the page to take it down,(this also illustrates the need to note the date last reviewed on a web page!)

but a related list is also available at http://www.careersoft.co.uk/mainpage.htm developed by Careersoft from my original DOTSMARKS list, and aimed at practitioners working with young people. They are now responsible for updating and maintaining it.

The point of such a list is to demonstrate the need to relate, and possiblity of relating, web-based and ICT-based resources to the outcomes we wish to achieve in guidance, in order to justify using them in certain contexts in preference to other resources: it is not axiomatic that one should always use an ICT-based resource if something else would deliver the same outcome more effectively or efficiently, and unless you identify the outcomes the ICT-based resource are intended to deliver, how can you decide whether to use them or not? This leads on to the point that the use or non-use of ICT/Web-based resources in guidance, is a guidance issue, not a technical issue and requires guidance skills, not technical skills in the first instance - using the Web does not excuse one from applying the same professional guidance skills and knowledge one uses to select resources in other media!!

Marcus Offer, NICEC