There's Vegemite on my Assignment

An Impact Assessment of Wimmera Adult Literacy and Basic Education

Authors

  • Neville Strachan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v9i1.434

Abstract

The Wimmera Adult Literacy aud Basic Education Group (WALBEG) has provided adult education courses to large areas of the state over the past twelve years, reaching out into the more isolated parts of the Wimmera, Mallee aud Western District of Victoria, as well as servicing the local Horsham area. Given that WALBEG has been providing courses since 1985, evaluation of the impact of these courses seemed timely. The type of evaluation perceived as appropriate by the WALBEG administrative committee was, not so much in terms of course criteria, but rather focussing on identifYing the way in which WALBEG courses undertaken had affected individuals aud their communities. Rogers (1992, P.69) refers to this form of evaluation as 'Impact Assessment' where evaluation goes beyond achievement of targets to an assessment of the impact of the program, not just on individuals, but on the community in general. The purpose of the study then was to identifY aud describe the outcomes of WALBEG programs, and the following aims related to the purpose were identified:


1. To identify the reasons people undertook the course/so
2. To assess the impact o fWALBEG programs on the individual.
3. To assess the impact on the neighborhoodlcommunity as a whole.
4. To investigate possible use of New Learning Tecimologies in future delivery of adult programs.

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Published

01-03-1999

How to Cite

Strachan, N. (1999). There’s Vegemite on my Assignment: An Impact Assessment of Wimmera Adult Literacy and Basic Education. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 9(1), 33–51. https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v9i1.434