In the current PrEval Study 5/2025, “Digital-Supported Evaluation of Digital Projects in Civic Education: ‘A Click Is Not Equivalent to Productive Engagement,’” editors Susanne Johansson (PRIF – Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research) and Andrea Prytula (DEZIM – German Center for Integration and Migration Research) present a comprehensive analysis of key methods, challenges, and potentials of digital evaluation. The study is based on an extensive literature review, expert interviews, a focus group, an analysis of monitoring data, and a participatory methods workshop. It provides well-founded recommendations for the further development of evaluation practices in digital civic education.
Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Scientific Coordinator at CAIS, contributes two scholarly chapters to the study. Her contributions illustrate how digital behavioral data and videographic methods offer new insights into impact, usage dynamics, and learning processes in digital civic education.
The PrEval Studies are part of the PrEval research and transfer initiative, which has been running since 2020. The project aims to strengthen evaluation and quality assurance in the fields of extremism prevention, civic education, and democracy promotion. PrEval understands evaluation not as a control mechanism but as a learning-oriented process and fosters continuous dialogue between practitioners, researchers, public administration, and funding institutions. Its focus lies on practice-oriented, multimethod evaluation approaches that are developed and tested in response to real-world needs.
Access to the study (PDF / in German):
https://preval.hsfk.de/fileadmin/PrEval/PrEval_Studie_5_2025.pdf