Participatory Evaluation for Workforce Development Team Guide | Issue 5 of 8
Who's This For
You organize site visits, job shadows, and internships for your workforce program. You coordinate with industry partners, manage logistics, and get journeyers into real workplace settings. You know these experiences matter -- you can see it in how journeyers talk about their careers differently after a day on a production floor. But when you try to document what was learned, you end up with satisfaction surveys and attendance records. The richest evaluation opportunities in your program happen inside industry settings, and you are capturing almost none of that evidence. This issue is for program coordinators, faculty who lead field experiences, career services professionals, and anyone who arranges industry experiences and wants them to generate learning AND evidence simultaneously.