Presentation of the project "Manuskills"- Denmark, held during the 8th Science Projects' Networking Event, Brussels, 16 October 2015

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Evaluation within Manuskills project
Maria Margoudi
Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen
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Project Mission
www.manuskills.org
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The consortium
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Skill Gap Root Causes
Skills Gap in
Manufactruing
Limited Education Efficiency
Change Nature of Work
Poor Image
Aging Workforce
Outdated Workforce Planning
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Children Teens Young Adults Adults
t
N.OfStudents
14/15 years
Drop-outs
t
InterestinSTEM
Disillusionment
t
InterestinSTEM
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Construction of
interest
Training/EducationAwareness
Leaking STEM Pipeline
Focus8-10 years

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ManuSkills
Platform
http://demo.manuskills.org/
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General Outline
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The Experimental Design
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Approach and Evaluation Tools
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Early
teenagers
(10-12)
Teenagers
(13-18)
3 different
approaches
Young
Adults
(university
students)
Questionnaires (interest)
Focus Groups
Structured Interviews
Drawings (awareness)
Observation
Questionnaires
(interest, awareness,
usability, enjoyment)
Observation
Questionnaires
(interest, awareness,
usability, enjoyment,
knowledge)
Game Metrics
Observation

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Slide Title
• Questionnaires
Excel Spreadsheet
• Focus Groups (on-going)
Discourse Analysis
• Structured Interviews
(on-going)
Discourse Analysis
• Drawings (challenge!)
Discourse Analysis
• Game Metrics
Used complementary to
knowledge
questionnaires)
Evaluation Tools and Data Analysis
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Restrictions / Encountered problems
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Difficulties to involve schools in the project’s activities
Teachers usually requested our full support
Teachers were afraid to participate /
didn’t feel confident teaching manufacturing related topics
Good practices
The use of ready made questionnaires (no validity and reliability issues)
External Advisory Board session in the middle of the project
about the evaluation approach