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Evidence: A play
in four thrilling
Acts
Act 1: Why do we do what we do?
Act 2: Is evidence just academic?
Act 3: Is this really MY problem?
Act 4: A way forward.
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Act 1: Why do we
do what we do?
In which our protagonist
flatters you to get on your
good side.
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Act 2: is
evidence just
academic?
Our hero shows his darker
side.
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What is evidence?
1. Information that informs practice. This might include
LMI, research about graduate and employer attitudes
etc.
2. The available and publicly accessible body of facts that
can support propositions about careers work.
Question: How much of what you do it really evidence
based?
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What do we know?
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What do we know?
Ensure quality
8) The skills, training and dispositions of the
professionals who deliver lifelong guidance
are critical to its success.
9) Lifelong guidance is dependent on
access to good-quality career information.
10) Lifelong guidance should be qualityassured and evaluated to ensure its
effectiveness and to support continuous
improvement.
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Focus on the
individual
1) Lifelong guidance is
most effective where it is
genuinely lifelong and
progressive.
2) Lifelong guidance is
most effective where it
connects meaningfully
to the wider experience
and lives of the
individuals who
participate in it.
3) Lifelong guidance is
most effective where it
recognises the diversity
of individuals and
relates services to
individual needs.
Support learning
and progression
4) Lifelong guidance is
not one intervention, but
many, and works most
effectively when a range
of interventions are
combined.
5) A key aim of lifelong
guidance programmes
should be the
acquisition of career
management skills.
6) Lifelong guidance
needs to be holistic and
well-integrated into other
support services.
7) Lifelong guidance
should involve
employers and working
people, and provide
active experiences of
workplaces.
Ensure quality
8) The skills, training
and dispositions of the
professionals who
deliver lifelong guidance
are critical to its
success.
9) Lifelong guidance is
dependent on access to
good-quality career
information.
10) Lifelong guidance
should be qualityassured and evaluated
to ensure its
effectiveness and to
support continuous
improvement.
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So is evidence academic?
We know a lot about the impacts of careers work
We know a lot about what to do to make careers work
effective
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Act 3: Is this
Really my
problem?
Things turn increasingly
nasty.
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Remember, remember
Your practice is only as good as the evidence that
underpins it.
There is no point in being really good at doing something
that has no impact.
Your job and your profession are vulnerable where there
is no evidence.
There arent many professional career education and
guidance researchers.
Research takes some skill, but it isnt rocket surgery.
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So
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Act 4: A way
forward
Redemption is offered for
those who will take it.
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What is evaluation?
When people seek to evaluate what they are doing as part of an
attempt to learn and improve, they are usually undertaking a
formative evaluation, so called because it is undertaken to inform
what is done while the activity is still in progress.
We would like to find out how to do these things better
Developing new
policies and services
Implementing new
policies and sevices
Impacts on employment?
Impacts on happiness?
Results
Behaviour
Learning
Reaction
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Surveys
Interviews
Focus groups
Observations
Reflective journals
Online data
Service monitoring data
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Write it down
My main reason for writing is simple: I do not know
what I think until I have written it. In conversation
one can get away with loose, exploratory thinking,
but in writing it down one has to weigh up the
arguments and the evidence, and decide what it all
means and where one stands. It is hard work, but
important; and if published, it adds to the body of
knowledge on which others can draw.
Tony Watts
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Publish or perish!
Blogs
Infographics
Self publication
Books and sector reports
Journal publication
Partnership with
academics
Using external consultants
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Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
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