East Ayrshire council critical skills programme evaluation report

The University of Stirling was commissioned by East Ayrshire Council and the Critical Skills Programme (CSP) Network to undertake an evaluation of the effects of the involvement of East Ayrshire teachers in CSP training institutes over the last few years. Working with a group within the authority a questionnaire was devised which was issued in April 2008 to all those teachers who had attended these training events. The questionnaire was designed to find out: Which CSP techniques trainees were using in their schools. What they felt the impact of their use of CSP techniques had been on their pupils and themselves. The level of networking and collaboration between teachers resulting from their involvement in the programme. Besides the closed questions relating to these topics teachers were also provided with spaces to make comments on the impact of their involvement in CSP, and their experience of collaboration and most chose to do so