Evaluation of the new selecting process for scholars of the Cusanuswerk
Since 2009, the Cusanuswerk has carried out a new procedure for selecting scholarship holders, the so-called first semester selection, in parallel to the existing basic selection procedure. This condensed procedure, which was still in the pilot phase at the time of the evaluation, is intended to enable significantly earlier access to funding from the Cusanuswerk. After three cohorts of scholarship holders who had been accepted during the first semester selection had gone through the final admission process by the permanent committees, the first semester selection process was to be evaluated.
The task of the evaluation commissioned by the Cusanuswerk was to assess the predictive validity of the procedure. The previous basic selection procedure and the new first semester procedure were compared with each other by interviewing the participants of both procedures using standardized online surveys and analyzing existing data and documents.
Advising IBQM on the evaluation of vocational qualification networks
The “Initiativstelle Berufliche Qualifizierung von Migrantinnen und Migranten” (IBQM) at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) was a project funded by the BMBF as part of the BQF program (Berufliche Qualifizierung für Zielgruppen mit besonderem Förderbedarf). In cooperation with the project sponsor, IBQM advised and supported applicants who initiated innovative pilot projects as part of the BQF program. These projects were intended to contribute to the further development of support services for disadvantaged young people for the very heterogeneous target group of young people with a migration background. One focus was on efforts to take into account the intercultural dimension of skills assessment and development for the target group in the field of in-company and school-based vocational training.
IBQM’s main task in improving the framework conditions for the vocational qualification of migrants was to initiate, advise and scientifically support local and regional cooperation networks for the vocational qualification of migrants (BQN). CEval advised IBQM on the development and implementation of the process-accompanying evaluation of the BQN. This essentially involved the following tasks: Support in the completion of the BQN evaluation concept of IBQM, input at the meetings of the BQN evaluation working group, support in the development of the criteria catalogs, presentation formats and indicators for the implementation of the stages of the process-accompanying evaluation agreed with the local evaluation officers of the BQN, technical advice on the implementation of the individual stages (local application of the criteria, informative value of the documentation and plausibility of the implementation).
Introduction of a monitoring and evaluation system in a vocational training project of German-Egyptian development cooperation
Development and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system for the Mubarak-Kohl-Initiative for the introduction of dual vocational training in Egypt.
