INFORMATION SHEET 3.3-1

Work-Based Training Evaluation Tools

Program evaluation is very important in training because this will help you gauge the success of the program. Evaluation will give information on what aspect of the program needs improvement.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use questionnaires and other evaluation tools.

Training Evaluation

Evaluation should be regularly done during and at the completion of the training program. Evaluation measures trainee progress and provides performance feedback to the instructor and the trainees  that  served  to reward success and identify needed improvement in trainee performance. Trainees’ performance is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of the  training program.

One very important role of the trainer is to evaluate the training for its improvement. The trainer should gather information for analysis of the learning experience.

Below are some items to be considered in the training evaluation:

Review of the Training Plan

The trainer must review and evaluate his/her Training Plan  and  identify the parts that were changed during the implementation. State the reasons why these changes were necessary. This is a very important step in improving your Training Plan for the succeeding training sessions. Reflect these also in your session plan at the trainer’s reflection portion.

Evaluate Trainee’s Progress Report

The trainer shall evaluate the trainees’ performance and record learning achievements in their individual progress sheet. From these, make a summary of the trainee’s progress chart. Note the time required for the trainees to accomplish each task and identify the areas where the trainees had the most difficulty. From these, you can identify learning strategies that can be used to improve learning of trainees.

Feedback from the Trainees

Feedback from the trainees is a very good source of information regarding the implementation of the work-based  training.  Although,  it  is very seldom that they would openly make comments on the way the training was done, it would be very helpful if the trainer could accomplish a questionnaire which the trainees answer at the end of the training session.

The questionnaire must be made simple to accomplish but must include feedback regarding the trainer, learning activities or tasks, the content, the resources provided and the assessment process to make it more responsive to the areas to be assessed.

Sample evaluation questionnaires are recommended for use. You may improve these questionnaires to include areas that may deem necessary for the improvement of industry training.

For purposes of our discussion on how evaluate work-based training, we shall be using these questionnaires as basis.