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ESS Evaluation Tool: Evaluation Wheel – Employability Skills Wheel

Publication date: 17/10/2019 (Updated 20/11/2020)

ESS resource: ESS Evaluation Methods and Tools

Evaluation pathway stage: Collecting evidence

Creative and flexible tool to collect information on outcomes in a simple and accessible manner.

Useful for

Provides many different types of information.
Showing journeys of change – results can be made into a spider diagram and overlaid giving a visual representation of progression.
Results can be aggregated into wheels for annual reports.
Simple analysis as it is essentially a scale questionnaire in circle form.