Evaluation for the Professional Development of Adult Education Staf

The paper presents the outcomes of the studies on evaluation of adult education staff conducted in the international research project EduEval financed by the European Commission. The first part shows the rules of the adult education system in Poland, among others: school and out-of-school settings, admisson requirements, modes of delivery, assesment, qualifi cations and certifi cates, quality assurance and funding. The second part is based on data collected during interviews with offi cial and unofficial evaluators and depictures the evaluation of adult education settings and its staff . The analysis focuses on the definition of evaluation, its aims, tools, standards and results, as well as the evaluator profi le, one’s tasks, key competences and diffi culties faced during the evaluation.