Trainers’ Toolkit – The power of scaling

	Exercise nr 16: The power of scaling
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Self-assessment exercises allow the group to evaluate their contributions to the meeting. It can also be used to create an overall plan and define more detailed step-by-step actions that bring participants closer to their learning objectives.
Group size	1-100 participants
Hashtags	#scaling #evaluation #goal
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No additional materials are needed, although you can use evaluation tools such as Mentimeter, Google Forms or Slido.
Exercise agenda	Fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility for the learning situation in the participants is often a challenge for the trainer. A scaling technique used as part of coaching can be helpful.   Examples of self-estimation used with auto-evaluation questions:  – Please assess your contribution to this activity on a scale from 1 to 10, Where 1 is “None” and ten is “I did excellently”. – Or On a scale from 1 to 10, please indicate your overall satisfaction degree with your performance today, where one is very dissatisfied, and ten is very satisfied. Other examples of scaling questions as far as the learning goal are concerned: – On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is this goal to you, where one is unnecessary, and ten is extremely important. – On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your satisfaction with your current situation? Questions to help with scaling might be as follows: – Where would you like to be on this scale a month from now? – What does this mean to you? Another idea for participants’ self-assessment is to draw a scale on a piece of paper from 1 to 10 areas and mark a number indicating what level they met their goals so far. The participants then evaluate their actions and imagine what they need to do to improve and to provide themselves with. e.g. 3 points more. When they finish, they add, for example, two more points and once again stimulate the fantasy of what more is needed to achieve the goal. In this way, they visualize in their mind’s eye a scale on which they find themselves and their learning plan, and on the axis, they map out the steps – the stages needed to achieve the goal.
Possible modifications	The exercise is also helpful as a good closure for the meeting. In the meditation, you can ask participants to think of their contribution to the workshop and appreciate themselves, f.e. e to appreciate their time and effort, to thank themselves for the work they did?.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union