Dr Sabrina Maichrowitz

Eva Kemler (M.Ed.)

1. Analysis of the demographic characteristics of accompanied pupils and school counsellors as well as the formal characteristics of school counselling in Hamburg
2. Analysing the expectations and assessments of relevant stakeholder groups with regard to current school support services in Hamburg
3. Analysing the strengths and weaknesses of the current procedures for school support in Hamburg and deriving needs for change and recommendations

Based on the overarching evaluation objectives, the evaluation within the framework of this project is intended to answer three central questions, for which possible sub-questions are named as examples:

1. What are the demographic characteristics of the accompanied pupils and school counsellors and what are the formal characteristics of the school counsellors in Hamburg?
2. What expectations and perceptions do relevant stakeholder groups have of the framework conditions, processes and effects of school counselling in Hamburg?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current procedures for school counselling in Hamburg and what needs for change and recommendations for improving school counselling can be derived?

In order to achieve the objectives and answer the questions, the first step is to analyse existing documents and data on school support in Hamburg (including conceptual documents, database on school support, parliamentary printed matter) and to carry out research on the subject and promotion of school support in Germany (module 1).

The second step involved a quantitative survey of 1. the schools (head teachers, support coordinators, class teachers/special needs teachers with school support), 2. the regional education and advice centres/the specialist department for school support (coordinators, case managers, overall managers, advisory teachers, B1-So2), 3. the service providers (providers and school support staff) and 4. the pupils' legal guardians in order to determine the expectations and evaluations of school support and school support staff (module 2).

In the third step, a qualitative survey will also be conducted with the schools, regional education and counselling centres (ReBBZ)/the specialist department for school support (B1-So2), the service providers and the legal guardians in order to generate in-depth findings on the expectations and evaluations of school support and school support staff in Hamburg (module 3).

In the fourth step, the strengths and weaknesses of the current school support procedures in Hamburg are identified as a result of the surveys and analyses, and the need for change and recommendations are formulated (module 4).