Evaluation
“Success depends on knowing what works.” Bill Gates
The evaluation of MetaCards is being undertaken by Paul Davies from Lancaster University. It is essential that the project benefits from external evaluation of its expected outcomes and processes. We want to look at every element of the MetaCards Transfer of Innovation programme and learn what works and what changes can be considered. We intend to involve our partners, the participants in the training and the young people and adults they have been working with.
The role of the evaluator is top provide an interim project report in September 2009 and then a final report at the conclusion of the project.
This final evaluation report will cover:
- Project Management
- Communication
- Training delivered to staff
- Impact on young people of MetaCards
- Impact on practitioners
- Impact of Train The Trainer sessions
- Dissemination
- Exit Strategy
- Partnership Working
- Transferability and Development of the MetaCards model
- Valorisation
Both interim and final reports will need to be translated into: Czech; Danish; and German
Feed-back from Danish participants
a) "Yesterday I used the MirrorCards with a group of young people who introduced themselves by means of the MirrorCards. It was striking how quickly and easily they started talking about themselves and what is essential for them in their lives. This created an extreme openness in the group from the very beginning – sooner than ever before".
Ulrikke Stokholm
Coach
"I have been using the cards during the training period, and it has been easy and not complicated for me to implement the tool. Tomorrow I am starting a new group and I am planning to use the cards with the participants. I am looking forward to that.
My manager at Horsens Jobcentre has contacted me and he is very keen to have me spread the use of MetaCArds to the people at the jobcentre who work with young people especially the group of young people who have problems finding a goal in their lives. He would like me to become trainer so that I can teach his employees. He would like to have this method implemented the sooner the better".
Ulrikke Stokholm
Coach
"I have now started using the MetaCards with young people who have difficulties in adjusting themselves to an educational environment. I am beginning to feel comfortable implementing them in my counselling. I have introduced the MetaCards to some of my colleagues who seem to be very interested in the method"
Niels Erik Andersson
Youth counsellor
"I already use NLP in my coaching – but the cards make it considerably easier to ”guide” the young person – without explaining any theory".
Helle Larsen
Coach
"The MetaCards have been a very successful and useful tool in getting young people to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. My experience is that young people open up much sooner than earlier. I think the reason is that the focus is on the cards and that the young person thus see it as a process rather than a dialogue. For those who have been out of the job market for a longer period of time or have dropped out of school it is a positive thing for them to be introduced to a different method from what they are used to. They have been confronted with so many interviews in the system and there has been much talking and less action. It is obvious that the young people like to take home with them something which is concrete and precise. Suddenly they understand that it is necessary to discuss and plan a “route” for their further journey often thinking along new lines. – in other words the cards help them to take ownership over their future and what they can do to reach their goals".
Rikke Thorbjørn
Syddjurs JobCentre
"The Cards have been a valuable contribution to my counselling career in connexion with young people. The cards are a doorway to a platform where the young person finds his own answers to unsolved issues in his or her life. It is incredible how soon the young person gets to the point and starts talking about himself and what matters in his life".
Helle Larsen
Coach
"The MetaCards are very effective. I am working with young people who carry a lot of heavy problems in their lives – problems which have made them incapable of making decisions in their lives. By means of the MetaCards they are working on solving the problems. Personal things have come to the surface which makes it easier for the counselor to support the young person".
Birgit Juncker
Horsens JobCentre
a) "Yesterday I used the MirrorCards with a group of young people who introduced themselves by means of the MirrorCards. It was striking how quickly and easily they started talking about themselves and what is essential for them in their lives. This created an extreme openness in the group from the very beginning – sooner than ever before".
Ulrikke Stokholm
Coach
"I have been using the cards during the training period, and it has been easy and not complicated for me to implement the tool. Tomorrow I am starting a new group and I am planning to use the cards with the participants. I am looking forward to that.
My manager at Horsens Jobcentre has contacted me and he is very keen to have me spread the use of MetaCArds to the people at the jobcentre who work with young people especially the group of young people who have problems finding a goal in their lives. He would like me to become trainer so that I can teach his employees. He would like to have this method implemented the sooner the better".
Ulrikke Stokholm
Coach
"I have now started using the MetaCards with young people who have difficulties in adjusting themselves to an educational environment. I am beginning to feel comfortable implementing them in my counselling. I have introduced the MetaCards to some of my colleagues who seem to be very interested in the method"
Niels Erik Andersson
Youth counsellor
"I already use NLP in my coaching – but the cards make it considerably easier to ”guide” the young person – without explaining any theory".
Helle Larsen
Coach
"The MetaCards have been a very successful and useful tool in getting young people to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. My experience is that young people open up much sooner than earlier. I think the reason is that the focus is on the cards and that the young person thus see it as a process rather than a dialogue. For those who have been out of the job market for a longer period of time or have dropped out of school it is a positive thing for them to be introduced to a different method from what they are used to. They have been confronted with so many interviews in the system and there has been much talking and less action. It is obvious that the young people like to take home with them something which is concrete and precise. Suddenly they understand that it is necessary to discuss and plan a “route” for their further journey often thinking along new lines. – in other words the cards help them to take ownership over their future and what they can do to reach their goals".
Rikke Thorbjørn
Syddjurs JobCentre
"The Cards have been a valuable contribution to my counselling career in connexion with young people. The cards are a doorway to a platform where the young person finds his own answers to unsolved issues in his or her life. It is incredible how soon the young person gets to the point and starts talking about himself and what matters in his life".
Helle Larsen
Coach
"The MetaCards are very effective. I am working with young people who carry a lot of heavy problems in their lives – problems which have made them incapable of making decisions in their lives. By means of the MetaCards they are working on solving the problems. Personal things have come to the surface which makes it easier for the counselor to support the young person".
Birgit Juncker
Horsens JobCentre
