Delivering and Evaluating Your Citizenship Action
A good idea only counts if you carry it out. Plan the action, deliver it as a campaign or a project, then measure and evaluate its impact the way examiners reward: with evidence, balance and a clear judgement.
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From plan to impact 🎯
A citizenship action is more than an idea. Once you have researched an issue and heard different viewpoints, you must **plan** a practical action, **deliver** it, and then **evaluate** how well it worked. This module follows those final stages, and how examiners judge them.
The language of action 🔑
Four ideas run through these final stages:
Order the final stages 🪜
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Match each part to what it involves 🔗
- Planning
- Delivering
- Success criteria
- Evaluation
- Setting goals, allocating roles and agreeing how decisions are recorded
- Carrying out the action, using collaboration and negotiation
- The measures set in advance to judge whether the goal was met
- Judging, with evidence, how well the action worked
Two forms of action ⚖️
A citizenship action can take two main forms. Both must be planned, delivered and evaluated.
Why set success criteria? 📋
What is the purpose of setting success criteria before an action?
- To have a clear measure of whether the action met its goal
- To make the action take as long as possible
- To avoid ever having to evaluate the action
- To keep the goal a secret from the team
Delivering the action 📣
Select the TWO examples of DELIVERING a citizenship action.
- Running a campaign to petition the local council
- Organising a community litter pick
- Only reading about the issue in a textbook
- Writing the plan but never carrying it out
Evaluate with evidence 🔍
A strong **evaluation** is **evidenced** and **balanced**. Do not just write that it went well. Judge the action against its **success criteria** using evidence, such as how many people signed a petition or attended an event. Say what **worked** and what did **not**, and why, and what you would do **differently**. Reflect on your **own** and your **team's** contribution and the **skills** you gained.
Complete the summary 🧩
After planning, a team _____ the action, using teamwork and negotiation. The action is judged against the goals and _____ set in advance. A strong _____ is balanced, saying what worked and what did not, backed by _____. One form of action is _____, which tries to influence others, such as a campaign.
Run the action ♻️
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The strongest evaluation 📊
Which of these is the strongest way to evaluate a citizenship action?
- Use evidence to judge the action against its goals, noting improvements
- Say it went well without giving any reasons
- Only describe what you did, with no judgement
- Claim it was a total failure to seem modest
Spot the strong evaluation 🖍️
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Evaluate the action ✍️
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