Mikhailova agrees: “To be a professional, you have to be part of the professional community, sharing experiences, learning from others, communicating. And it is important that would-be evaluators follow ethical standards. Still, evaluation is not an audit, not an inspection. And here it is important to remember that evaluation is not about giving an A or an F; it is about answering the right questions and making the right decisions. An evaluator is a person who has come to help sort things out,” Marina Mikhailova explains.
Evaluation is an incredibly interesting field, Irina Efremova-Garth notes, because an evaluator must have skills from many different areas.
“You have to be extremely proficient at doing different kinds of research, extremely good at data crunching. You must have very good management skills. After all, evaluation is rarely done by just one person. It usually requires a team, so you have to be able to build processes properly, allocate roles in the team and manage results. You have to have reflection, critical thinking skills,” the expert adds.
Irina Sinelina believes that it is important to have a good basic education in liberal arts, which builds analytical skills, and a good knowledge of English, because much of the material about evaluation is written in English. The rest you can learn by practice.
As mentioned earlier, one of the stages in the development of a profession is a professional standard. Why do we need a professional standard in any activity? As noted in Decree No.23 of the Russian Government dated January 22, 2013 professional standards are applied[19]
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