Extended intensified vocational guidance

Abstract

"The research report deals with intensified and extended intensified vocation- al guidance measures and the possibilities of evaluating them. (Extended) intensified vocational guidance is offered in many places to help young people in their transition to training. The analysis of a survey within the Federal Employment Agency showed that these measures are extremely heterogeneous and pursue very differing goals. The report presents some of these measures and the approaches used in accompanying research. It becomes apparent that, while these studies are valuable as practical reports, they do not meet the demands of scientific evaluation. For this reason, current evaluation projects are then outlined and a concept for further evaluations that meet scientific requirements developed; furthermore concepts for the evaluation of individual types of measures that have been implemented in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia as of summer 2010 are presented. The report concludes by making the suggestion that less individual measures or types of measures are evaluated in future but rather that one concentrates on the offers that are available in individual schools, communities or regions and how these interact." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Kupka, P. & Wolters, M. (2010): Erweiterte vertiefte Berufsorientierung. Überblick, Praxiserfahrungen und Evaluationsperspektiven. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 10/2010), Nürnberg, 59 p.