Wirkungsmessung pädagogischer Interventionen: Anpassung eines Zielerreichungsinstruments an jugendforensische Anforderungen

Abstract

In youth welfare quality management increasingly gains in importance over the last decades. Tools used for quality assurance have to be broadly acceptable in everyday practical work. To meet that precondition it is essential that everyday practice and the diferent problem situations of children and adolescents are accordingly represented by these assessment scales. On the other hand they also require good methodical quality and generalization, thus, allowing to provide information about the efectiveness in a multiplicity of diferent residential institutions. herefore, goal attainment scales have to be adapted to speciic pedagogic settings as well as to the particular clientele. However, universal goals of pedagogic processes should be assessed as well. At the university hospital of Ulm, department child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, a scale was developed to measure the attainment of social competence and individual goals (PädZi). With the intention of an application of these scales in youth forensic context within a project (MAZ) in Switzerland the scales were adapted and expanded based on qualitative interviews with experts from the forensic and educational ields. Interrater agreement was shown to be good.

Assessing change in the behavior of children and adolescents in youth welfare institutions using goal attainment scaling

“…In two studies, one in German youth welfare institutions [42] and one in a youth forensic context in Switzerland [43], GAS was modified and used to evaluate change in children and adolescents with respect to social and individual goal behavior during their stay. In these studies, professionals and clients rated goal attainment cooperatively using a computer-based tool.…”