Evaluation of the proejct "Forum of Generations @ School"

The project „Forum of Generations @ School“ is almost at its end and students of both participating schools did the survey about the project with the aim to evaluate the project. Here are the results of the survey.

            The total number of students who took part in this survey was 38. There were 9 questions given in the questionnaire and all of them were answered by participants of the survey. Here are the results.

            On question No. 1 How motivating was project „Forum of Generations @ School“ ? 16 participants (42.1%) answered  - extremely motivating, 18 participants (47.4%) said it is very motivating and 4 participants (10.5%) said the project is moderately motivating.

            Question No. 2 . How many of the course objectives did project meet? answered 38 students. 16 students think all of them, 16 students think most of them and 6 students think that hlf of them.

            Question No.3 How clearly did project explain the objectives of the course? answered 38 students. 17 of them think extremely clearly, 18 – very clearly and 3 students think moderately clearly.

            Question No. 4 What were your most favorite experiences at project? students offered mostly these answers: logo competition, the survey about old women in the society and meeting two generations, the most favourite experience was when we went to the nursing home, when we helped older people, the most favourite experience in this project is that I learn a lot from different countries and I developed my skills in communication, giving flowers to old people and making their day a little brighter, meeting old people, activities with seniors, overcoming the generation gap with seniors, the most important experience that I had in this project was the videoconference between the Romanian team and the Slovak team, another experience was meeting with Mr. Petrisor, the decan of University Ovidius, Constanta, Faculty of Filology, now a pensioner, meeting the seniors and opportunity to learn something new.

            The question No. 5 Overall, were you satisfied with your experience at project, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with it, or dissatisfied with it? was answered like this:25 students were extremely satisfied and 13 students moderately satisfied.

            Question No. 6 What are the strengths of project? students answered these responses: joy and hapiness to the eldery, being aware of the other generations and trying to let the differences aside, the dedication that we students showed,  the strengths of the project are communication and cooperation between different people with different opinion and cultures, learning English and ICT application, discussing with other students from other countries. We love to create with old men different things, overcoming the generation gap, the project helps seniors and young people,  the project connected young and old people,  learning more about creating the webside of the project, I think that the strenghts of the project were the communication between pupils from different countries, meeting with older people who shared with us their life experience, the study of IT applications., agreat organisation of activities and cooperation with our partners.

            Question No. 7 Are your interactions with other members of your team positive, neither positive nor negative, or negative? students answered like this: 24 students say extremely positive, 11 students say moderately positive and 3 student slightly positive.

            The students answered the question No. 8 How well does project consider the individual needs of students? this way: 21 of the answered extremely well, 13 very well and 4 said moderately well.

            Question No 9 How large a role does the project "Forum of Generations @ School" play in the community? was answered like this: 20 students said extremely large, 11 students said the rolo of the project is very large and 7 students said the role of the project was moderately large.

            According to these results it is possible to say, that students were really satisfied with the project and it was a great oportunity for both students and seniors to overcome the generation gap and be good role models for young generation. And students learnt a lot of great new things about active aging, elderly people and the project has had a lot of assets :)

Slovak and Romanian team