MONITORING OF THE COMPETENCES
DERIVING FROM THE VOLUNTARY CIVIL SERVICE
The system of monitoring and
evaluation of not formal learning constitutes a part of the third action of
CSA project. This is ended to the definition of a system of detecting of
several levels coming from experiences of civil service.
The very finality of the project is to help to detective the value of not
formal learning so that the learnt skills by young people can facilitate
their employability. It should be a moment of individual and professional
raise that is possible through the development of basic and social
competences. The experimentation of monitoring will take place in those
contexts of civil service that concern job creation, cultural promotion and
citizen’s services.
The experimentation previews three phases of monitoring: in the first phase
supervises the competences to attitudes at the start up of the civil service;
the second phase concerns the monitoring of the competences to attitudes in
itinere (in the middle of the voluntary service project). Finally the third
phase monitoring the competences in advanced phase of the voluntary service.
For this aim the questionnaire represents an excellent tool; it consents the
measurement of a phenomenon in quantitative mode; it guarantees the
standardization of the thrusts: the questions of the questionnaire are
placed in the same order and with the same terms to all the subjects. This
characteristic allows to collect information about the subject of research
in a uniform way and to confront the answers between them.
The monitoring questionnaire has a double purpose: on one side it wants to
help the volunteers and the project responsible to take conscience about the
importance of some competences and convictions regarding the world of the
job. From the other one it aspires to concur a founded and systematic
formulation of the training programs in the field of the civil service,
trying of monitor changes of their convictions and competences in the course
of the experience.
In this context some prerequisites are analyzed, as an acquaintance, ability
and personal resources not specific for a working context, but important for
the training and the professional and general preparation of the person. The
convictions, instead are invested regarding the cross sectional competencies;
useful for a working and organizational behaviour.
The questionnaire is made up of 12 exploratory areas grouped into four great
sections.
The first part of the first section regards the general information about
the young people, his/her formation experiences, his/her work experiences
and the expectations regarding the civil service.
The second section is dedicated to the monitoring of the ability of data
interpretation, as decisional and analytic ability of the subject, starting
from numerical data. There is another part called “Using words” that is
dedicated to competence and linguistic monitoring; the last one is dedicated
to the critic comprehension of the text monitoring.
The third section analyses volunteer’s competences and convictions.
The fourth area is dedicated to the evaluation of the inclinations,
aspirations and needs of which the volunteer are bearers. It analyses the
professional interests, to outside of the concrete possibilities of being
able to realize them. Is very important to specify that the interest does
not regard the ability but the desires.
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