Évaluation de la qualité de la formation professionnelle dans les politiques publiques

The aim of this research is to propose a synthesis about the French practices concerning the evaluation of quality aspects in vocational training, especially where public policies are concerned. We have selected a relatively small number of evaluation studies (40 reports), which are directly concerned with the CEDEFOP's priority : the training programmes for people that are unemployed or threatened by unemployment. They are principally recent reports, published in the nineties. These reports are mainly issued from public governments or from study and research centers. They concern training programmes which are fully or partially financed by public funds. These training programmes mainly concern two categories: young people and unemployed, but employees can also be involved in the case of retraining courses. These different evaluations do not use the same methods. On the one hand each evaluation appears to be specific while it is related to the specific goal of the particular program, on the other hand the evaluation methods evolve during the time because the relationship between training ant employment are better known. Hence we propose to group the evaluation methods in two large categories: the substantial evaluations and the procedural ones. This typology allows us to emphasize both the each method specificities and the general evolutions of the methods. The first category is thus named because it is related to the results of training actions in regard to their goals. In the second case, the evaluation is concerned with the internal running of the action and particularly in the whole procedures, modes, agreements, conflicts, negotiations, arrangements, translations... that practically appears at the different levels of the exercise.