International Adult Learners Week
in Europe

Network of Learning festivals

• Introduction
• Preliminary Remarks before Evaluating a Learning Festival
• Evaluation Matrix
• Questionnaire Samples

• To assess the effectiveness and usefulness of your ALW or learning festival from the perspective of participants, you will find here an example of a questionnaire from Slovenia. You might want to adapt it to your own context.

• A different example for the same purpose, namely to find out from participants what they thought about the ALW or learning festival, is the questionnaire used in Iceland.

• Another questionnaire developed by Slovenia addresses all organizations (providers and cultural institutions) that have been involved in implementing the ALW or learning festival. It may be useful for you as an example to draft your own questionnaire and to find out how the cooperation with colleagues has worked out and/or can be improved.

• A genuine evaluation package has been developed in the Netherlands and consists of three parts. First of all it entails an evaluation form “What do we learn from you?” which is to be filled in by regional and local organizers and sent to the national coordinator in order to provide insight into the results at local level and to get feedback about the support needed. Secondly a series of tips and tricks for the organisers of local/regional activities to evaluate their own activities is supplied. And thirdly, the package includes an example of a questionnaire which organizers can use to get feedback from the visitors. The package is posted on the website of the national coordinator (CINOP) and is sent to local organizers three months before they are starting their activities (before the ALW which is the last week of September!). Have a look (in Dutch only)!

• In the UK, a special questionnaire was developed to trace back what former ALW award winners have done after receiving their awards in order to find out whether the award has made an impact on their lives. If you are interested in developing such a questionnaire for your own purposes, have a look!

If you have already used a questionnaire in your own learning festival or mobilization campaign and would like to share it with other organizers, please get in touch! b.bochynek@unesco.org