Evaluation must be an object of learning both in theory and in practice.

We must therefore (after having announced the objectives in advance) have the opportunity to evaluate the learners during professional situations like harvesting wood in a plot, define an intervention in forest management, monitoring of logging site before and while harvesting.

Here is an explanation of how assessments are used during forestry training. You will then found a process used in training for proposing assessments which support learners learning and practice.

The process followed :

STEP 1 - CHOSING A WORK SITUATION
The student has to choose a pertinent work situation among situation they already lived. The choice must follow the framework given by the teacher.

Skills used : Thinking to be strategic and take a position.

Goal : Help to build a professional approach by comparing different worksite

Support document : Framework of worksite situation’s report / Help paper to get informations

STEP 2 - INDIVIDUAL FEEDBACK BY WRITING A TECHNICAL REPORT
The student write a report on this technical situation by following a worksite report’s framework. They start this work in the classroom with teacher support and then complete the report at home.

Skills used : Be able to have a more theorical and global look on a usual practice / Use software (mapping, writing, ...) and get information on websites

Goal : Help student to understand the different steps we need to follow to ensure a good professional practice

Support document : Framework of worksite situation’s report

Deliverable : Evaluation grid of report (teacher ) / Report (student)

Evaluation :

Printing and correction of the report
Explanation of the corrections to the student
Student corrects his document

STEP 3 - PRESENTATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL SITUATION (SIMULATION)
The student have to present the professional situation that he choose for the report. The presentation is during 10 min face the teacher and the others students with a PPT presentation.

Skills used : Be able to have a professional and clear speech and find a way to present the work shortly / Build a PPT presentation and use it face to a public

Goal : Help the student to become a professional by explaining a practice with a logical and chronological way

Support document : Help document to do the PPT presentation

Deliverable : Evaluation grid 1 (official) and 2 (personal)

Evaluation : Fill a evaluation sheet based on presentation contents and verbal skills and give a oral feedback to the students about presentation

STEP 4 - GENERAL FEEDBACK
After the presentation, it begins the “question time” with one question asked by each student and between 5 and 10 questions of the teacher. The students try to answer the questions like a professional with a serious position.

Skills used : confronting the opinions of others and know how to try to answer it by use of experience and knowledge

Goal : Taking a step back from one's practice and knowledge in order to integrate it into a professional approach

Support document :

Paper with the list of questions to help student to work on answer
Paper with advice to help to improve presentation (one advice for each student)

Evaluation : Autoevaluation of the student and correction of PPT and speech