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Evaluating Opportunity Provider Visits
introducing some tools and tips for evaluating your visit effectiveness, including links to explore and/or download some useful pro-formas for structuring an evaluation
How can I evaluate my effectiveness in Opportunity Provider Visits?
First - find a friend!
Don't try and do everything on your own. Your process of evaluating how effective you are in working with employers will be much more fun and much more likely if you can find someone to talk things through with. So, as your starting point, find a friend!
Ideally this will be a colleague or mentor who is willing to act as a 'critical friend'. You need to feel comfortable talking openly to this person, and you might need to agree some ground rules for giving feedback. Perhaps you can provide each other with some mutual peer support and after discussing approaches accompany each other on some employer visits too. That way you can observe each other in action and provide mutual constructive feedback on how you get on.
You may well find you learn just as much from watching someone else carry out a visit as you do from practising visits yourself.
Secondly - have a look at this evaluation grid together - it offers a possible approach to conducting opportunity provider visits.
How do I use the evaluation grid?
- Getting some constructive feedback
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This grid is designed to act as a discussion document – you can either sit down with a colleague/ mentor/ critical friend and discuss the different headings, or if you like, you can print it out and get your colleague to come with you and use it as a sort of check list to provide a framework to give you some constructive feedback on how effective you are when visiting employers.
Ideally it will stimulate some discussion that might lead to some formative feedback which could help you in your professional development. - Health Warning!
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This form is only a guideline. It is not intended to be exhaustive or comprehensive. It should be viewed as a sensible framework that will prompt some useful discussion. It is likely to be most useful if used flexibly. Not all points will be appropriate in all situations, and there may be other issues you need to address. Remember too, this evaluation pro-forma relates only to one aspect of working with opportunity providers.
Our employer-visit evaluation grid is available in several forms - as a downloadable pro-forma for filling in your own evaluations (in full and pared-down forms), and in a browsable version with notes to explain each part of the pro-forma. You will find links to each of these versions below:
Downloads:
- Printable PDF pro-forma: full evaluation grid
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(visit_eval_grid_full.pdf
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352 Kb
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You can download and print this PDF to use with your own evaluations.
This evaluation grid is adapted from one originally used by the College of Guidance Studies - thanks to CCCUC for permission to use the materials.
- Editable Word document pro-forma: full evaluation grid
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(visit_eval_grid_full.doc
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980 Kb
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You can download this Microsoft Word document and edit your own copies of it directly to use with your own evaluations.
This evaluation grid is adapted from one originally used by the College of Guidance Studies - thanks to CCCUC for permission to use the materials.
Simplifed version of the evaluation grid:
- Printable PDF pro-forma: simplified evaluation grid
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(visit_eval_grid_simple.pdf
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300 Kb
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You can download and print this simplified-version PDF to use with your own evaluations.
This evaluation grid is adapted from one originally used by the College of Guidance Studies - thanks to CCCUC for permission to use the materials. The simplified version has fewer data-entry fields than the full version, and the section and field titles are expressed in plainer english.
- Editable Word document pro-forma: simplified evaluation grid
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(visit_eval_grid_simple.doc
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744 Kb
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You can download this simplified-version Microsoft Word document and edit your own copies of it directly to use with your own evaluations.
This evaluation grid is adapted from one originally used by the College of Guidance Studies - thanks to CCCUC for permission to use the materials. The simplified version has fewer data-entry fields than the full version, and the section and field titles are expressed in plainer english.
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