Orientation Assessment Toolkit

The Cultural Orientation Resource Center has developed the Orientation Assessment Toolkit to help refugee orientation providers assess and enhance their CO programming. The toolkit is comprised of the following:

Objectives and Indicators

• Overseas Cultural Orientation Objectives and Indicators
• Reception and Placement Orientation Objectives and Indicators

R&P CO Learner Assessment

• Model R&P CO Assessment (Revised, 2015; in English, Arabic, Burmese, Chin, Dari, Farsi, French, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Nepali, Pashto, Somali, Spanish, Swahili)
• Guidelines for Use of the Model R&P CO Assessment (Revised 2015)
• Training Module for Administering the Model R&P CO Assessment (simulation to practice administering the oral version of the assessment)
• Written Version of the Model R&P CO Assessment (in English, Arabic, Burmese, Chin, Dari, Farsi, French, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Nepali, Pashto, Somali, Spanish, Swahili)
• Guidelines for Use of the Written Model CO Assessment
• Questions and Answers about the Model CO Assessment (Revised 2015) 

Overseas CO Learner Assessment

• Overseas CO Multiple Choice Question Bank
• Guidance: Writing Multiple Choice Questions for CO Learner Assessments

Assessment Planning

• CO Assessment Plan Template
• CO Assessment Plan Review Checklist

Additional Guidance

• Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Evaluation (including suggestions on monitoring and evaluating CO programs in general, with a particular emphasis on developing and using assessments of participant learning)
• Webinar: Orientation Assessments: Delivery, Consistency, and Validity (November 3, 2014)
• Webinar: Assessing the Effectiveness of R&P Orientation: Content and Use of the CAL Assessment Toolkit (February 12, 2014)

 

These materials were created in collaboration with the members of the Cultural Orientation Working Group, representing the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, national resettlement agencies, overseas Cultural Orientation programs, and local resettlement agencies, as well as with input from refugees and other stakeholders.