FINAL EVALUATION OF ERASMUS PLUS PROJECT:

"YEUROPE - MAKING A EUROPEAN STUDENT MAGAZINE"  

Once the project has finished the whole school community at Institut Joan Brossa in Barcelona (students, families, teachers and other school staff) was asked to fill in an evaluation form to assess their knowledge of the project, their opinion on the importance of carrying out international collaborative projects in the school and the convenience and their willingness to take part in future projects and here is the summary of the results:

Number of responses to the survey: 220

Students of 1st or 2nd ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education, 12-13yo)   63 – 28.2%

Students of 3rd or 4th ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education, 14-15yo)    31 – 14.1%

Students of Batxillerat (Post-Compulsory Secondary Education, 16-18yo)    44 - 20%

Teachers                 13 – 5.9%

Other staff                 3 – 1.4%

Students’ Parents    67 – 30.5%

Responses to the questions: 

1. Did you know that our school has participated in an ErasmusPlus project? 
   a) Yes 51.4%

b)  No  48.6% 

2.   If you answered YES to the previous question how did you learn about it? (multiple response)

1. Informative meetings     45%
2. ErasmusPlus corner  at school   10%
3. News on the school web or social media      7.1%
4. From other students / teachers / families    25.7%
5. Other sources    27.1% 

3. Do you know the age / level of the students who have participated in the project?

1. Yes 28.6%
2. I’m not sure 22.7%
3. No 48.6%

4.  Do you know what the project was about? (multiple response)

1. Editing and  publishing a magazine together with the other partner schools     30.5%
2. Organizing and taking part in international meetings     25%
3. Hosting foreign students    22.3%
4. Travelling to other countries and being host by local families     28.6%
5. Writing articles about different topics chosen by the students    15.5%
6. Making friends from other countries     16.8%
7. I don’t know    50.5%

5. Do you think that taking part in ErasmusPlus projects is beneficial for the students and for the school?

1. Yes, definitively      68.2%
2. Yes, probably         21.4%
3. I don’t know            10%
4. No                             0.5%

6. If you answered YES to the previous question, what do you think are the benefits? (multiple response)

1. Improvement of foreign language skills   87.4%
2. Improvement of social skills    63.1%
3. Improvement of digital skills    31.3%
4. Internationalization of the school and chances of mobility to other countries    42.4%
5. Use of different working methodologies    35.9%
6. Improvement of the appreciation of our school by students and families    33.3%

7. Do you think that our school should take part in another ErasmusPlus project?

1. Yes               85.5%
2. I’m not sure  13.6%
3. No                  0.9%

8. In case our school took part in another ErasmusPlus project would you like to participate?

1. Yes, definitely    44.1%
2. Yes, probably    32.7%
3. I’m not sure       15.9%
4. No                       7.3%

9. Comments

Participants in the survey were invited to leave comments if they wished. About twenty comments were written that could be divided in two big blocks, those who didn’t know about the project and would like to have more information and those who did know and/or took part in it and praised and congratulated the organizers for the effort and the good results.

Interpretation of the survey results

At first sight it is a little shocking that almost 50% of the school community says that they didn’t know about the project but if we analyze the data more in detail we realize that those who didn’t know are the youngest students, the ones who weren’t in the school when the project started or who just started in our school this year. The project started in October 2017 and was aimed at students between 15-18 years old so it is somehow understandable that the older students knew more about it than the younger ones. Nevertheless we have learnt that we have to make a bigger effort to involve the whole school in the projects or at least to ensure that everybody is informed and for that reason we commissioned the design and printing of bookmarks, brochures and posters to help disseminate the results of the project.

On the other hand it is very encouraging and rewarding to see that a vast majority of respondents consider that carrying and taking part in ErasmusPlus projects is very beneficial for the students and for the whole school and that also most of the respondents are eager to take part in future projects.  

You can see the charts of the results and comments of the respondents in this document:

Final evaluation responses_Barcelona.pdf