Redefining the Professional Profile of the Adult Education Staff Evaluator

Abstract

The evaluation of professionals involved in Adult Education (AE) staff has a
crucial role in European policies. Furthermore, the syntagm educational
work is difficult to define because it concerns a variegated target of users
and an action which is played out in different contexts and for different purposes:
the educational work is a complex “object to be evaluated” and the
evaluation of the educational work requires different perspectives, methods
and practices. Thanks to EDUEVAL project (an EU project coordinated
by University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy: http://www.edueval.eu/), the AE staff
Evaluator have been defined as a professional figure with different competences,
having specific multi-functional characteristics to work in different
contexts. In the study on the profile of the evaluator of AE staff and in designing
the ensuing training model, consideration has been given, on the
one hand, to the theoretical framework which considers the specific professional
skills and competences of the evaluator; on the other hand, work was
performed by recognizing the transversal professional skills and competences
of the evaluator, through consulting and study of the ESCO portal.
EDUEVAL results help to fuel debates in matters of the professionalization
of evaluative practice.