Self-assessment

Self-evaluation is a specific approach to the evaluation with smooth transitions to quality management. It is characteristic that the evaluation is not performed by external evaluation experts as in the case of the external evaluation, but by those people ( " practitioners " ) who are responsible in the field of practice for the design and / or implementation of the object being evaluated. What is essential is less that all concrete activities that occur during an evaluation, carried out by the selbstevaluierenden practitioners, but rather that they have as owners of the process a significant impact on evaluation objectives, research questions, design, implementation and use of evaluation results, or even act in a personal union as a principal, decision-makers and / or evaluation team of the evaluation.

The goal of self-evaluations is usually to improve the practice as directly as possible due to systematically gathered data. Often self-evaluation of a " self-evaluation cycle " is therefore designed in the form. Here, results are to be implemented immediately in the form of practical consequences of actions, which then form the starting point for renewed self-evaluation activities.

Self-evaluation can be implemented at different levels. To distinguish the individual's self- evaluation, evaluate systematically the individuals aspects of their own work, and the organizational self-evaluation, the aspects of the work of an entire organization or institution is recognized. The latter form is often referred to as internal evaluation, but the term is not congruent with the self-evaluation, as well as internal foreign evaluations are possible. In the self-evaluation different methods are used: Particularly suitable are multi-functional methods, which are directed to practice change and at the same time, raise without extra effort data. Even the classic methods such as the interview, the group survey and the questionnaire can be considered, particularly where the latter requires large overhead. Tailored to the needs of the schools self-evaluation instrument SEIS is ( self-evaluation in schools). In addition to internal evaluation of schools are held external evaluations, such as the school inspection.

History and practice fields

In the German debate, the concept of self-evaluation has its own tradition since the late 1980s, triggered by the work of Maja Heiner and Joachim king in the field of social work. In the 1990s, it has then been found in the context of pilot input into the school environment. In the development, the discussion is V.A. in the context of approaches such as TQM, EFQM and instead of similar approaches. In the field university self-evaluations are primarily to internally -designed quality management approaches or mixed as a sub-element of internal and external quality procedures used.

The DeGEval has some years discussed the development of their own standards of self-evaluation. As a result, published in 2004 recommendations on the use of standards for evaluation in the field of action of the self-evaluation.

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