SAM - scale:

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SAM - scale for attitude measuring – extra explanation English Polish German Dutch

Introduction about the SAM – scale

1.     Motivation and initial idea

Besides knowledge attitudes and abilities have become more important, also in industry. This shows clearly application, promotion, the assignment of tasks, ..

In 1995 the Flemish Christian employers’ organization introduced the Scale for Attitude Measuring. The VKW wanted to offer the schools, more and more confronted with attitude building, an auxiliary and developed this scale as a common reference framework, useful in both education and industry.

A lot of companies and schools use this scale, better known as SAM – scale, in an adapted version as a basis on which they can develop their own scales and instruments.

2.     Purpose of the SAM – scale and use

The SAM – scale helps schools to judge pupils, to guide, to stimulate and to orientate.

This instrument has been developed as a basis for discussion in contacts between schools and companies as pupils’ trainings in industry, partial employment etc.

Both employers as teachers can mark the pupil’s score on the scale and compare the results.

Companies can use this scale to evaluate, to coach, to train their employees.

The scale for attitude measuring is a real standard. What symptoms, criteria and critical points indicate someone to score insufficiently, moderately, good or excellent as to a certain attitude?

On such questions the scale offers a satisfying answer.

It is certainly not the purpose to measure, evaluate and follow up all attitudes and abilities of every pupil over and over again. The evaluator ( teacher) has to decide which attitudes are the most important at a certain moment. It all depends on the context.