Evaluating training

Evaluating training

Introduction
	Evaluating a training program or training course means continuously assessing its progress and effectiveness.

Benefits
	Here are some benefits of assessing training:
	Evaluation improves the future planning and implementing of training. Evaluation helps determine the extent to which training objectives have been achieved. Evaluation gives insights for reviewing adjusting, and revising goals, schedules, and procedures.

Discussion

The evaluation should be done in a culturally appropriate way which gives an accurate picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the training program or activity.

There are three stages of evaluation:

See also:

The evaluation process

Things to do
	Here are the things to do when you evaluate training:
	Do pretraining evaluation. Do formative evaluation. Do summative evaluation.

See also
	Evaluating a literacy program
	See the following online books for more information:
	Planning for literacy in Papua New Guinea, Evaluation

Context for this page:

Task module: Evaluating training
In task module: Planning a training program
In task module: Training literacy personnel, by Susan Malone, Angelika Marsch (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 22 October 1999