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
Put these final stages of a citizenship action into the right order.
- Plan the action, setting goals, success criteria and roles
- Deliver the action, using teamwork and negotiation skills
- Measure the impact of the action against its goals
- Evaluate what worked and what could be improved
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.
Delivering and judging the action
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
A student team runs a citizenship action to reduce litter at school. Guide their final stages.
- How should they deliver their action most effectively?
- How can they measure the impact of their action?
- What makes their evaluation strong?
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
Tap the TWO statements that show a STRONG evaluation of a citizenship action.
- We met our goal because 200 people signed, above our target of 150.
- The action went well and everyone was happy.
- Next time we would start earlier, as we ran short of time.
- We do not need to check whether we met our goal.
- It was a success simply because we tried our best.
Evaluate the action
A team carried out a citizenship action to improve road safety near their school. Explain how they should deliver and evaluate the action, and what makes an evaluation strong.
- Describe how the team could deliver the action, such as a campaign or a project
- Explain how they would measure the impact against their goals
- Explain what makes an evaluation strong, using evidence
- Describe one thing they might identify to do differently next time