Individual Action Plans and Goal Attainment Scaling

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Individual Action Plans and Goal Attainment
Scaling

• ISW Day 3 Leeds, 15th May 2008
• Tom Isherwood

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GAS personal frameworks for evaluation

• Goal Attainment Scales participant sets three
  goals for themselves. One of the three GAS
  targets should concern a way of getting feedback
  on own performance as a supervisor
• Set today and reviewed on Day 5 (Nov 2008)

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GAS background

• Kiresuk, T.J., Smith, A. Cardillo, J. E.
  (1994). Goal Attainment Scaling Applications
  Theory, and Measurement. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence
  Erlbaum Associates.
• GAS has three impressive elements a) assessment
  of the relative nature of the human experience
  b) assessment of change over time and c)
  impressive research support
• A measure of change a measure of prognoses

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How to do it

• The first step is identifying high priority goal
  areas. Write the first in the box labelled 'Goal
  1' and add others as appropriate.
• Next step is to identify possible outcomes in
  each of the chosen goal areas. Outcomes should be
  specific and where possible expressed as a
  behavioural statement or something that is
  observable.
• Start with the most likely outcome. This is what
  you would reasonably expect to occur within the
  time frame agreed and indicates success. This is
  recorded as 0.
• Then describe what would be a higher level of
  success, or better outcome (1) and an even
  higher level or better outcome (2). Then do the
  same for lower levels of success (-1) and (-2).

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Useful link re history and use of GAS

• http//www.marson-and-associates.com/GAS/GAS_index
  .html