Brain Drain - Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

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Schneider, S.L. (ed.),The International Standard Classification Of Education (ISCED – 97) –
An Evaluation Of Content and Criterion Validity for 15 European Countries. Mannheim,
Universitaet, 2008.
http://www.euroguideval.org/choix.html Leonardo Project developing standards
and training materials for people working with the recognition and assessment
of non-formal learning.
Overview on courses 3 - 5
The term ‘assessment’ is very closely related with a career counsellor’s profession.
Especially in the Brain Drain – Brain Gain counselling it has a multifunctional
application that helps evaluate and assess clients’ perspectives and chances of
fulfilment within the life and career transition.
The assessment process is a complex, interdisciplinary activity for the systematic
collection of information about the clients. It becomes more complex as it reflects the
BD-BG aspect. Here the counsellor has to consider the different cultural, educational
and market contexts and how the client is going to fit in it.
Assessment is conducted in several stages in the counselling process. During the
first clients’ interview, the clients’ needs for counselling are subject to assessment
and in addition career development goals are defined. Furthermore, assessment
helps diagnose problems, assess interests, values, professional degree, personal
qualities and skills. Assessment is a method also used to check the extent to which
the designed action plan is in unison with goals set as well as to analyze whether the
client’s needs for development are satisfied at the end of the process. Assessment is
done not only in regard with the client but also in regard with the career counsellor’s
work (regular self-assessment).
In the current module the mostly used methodologies for abilities and skills
measurement and interests’ assessment in counselling process will be presented.
Multicultural context of their usage and need for development of the methodologies in
order to meet the needs of the multicultural character of today’s communities will be
also discussed.
The courses are
Course 3: Types of assessment instruments
Course 4: Stages of assessment elaboration process
Course 5: Multicultural context of ability measurement and interest
assessment
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