I attended a course at a local commercial learning & development centre yesterday and commented on the blandness of their evaluation sheet. So I was (not unreasonably) asked to put my money where my mouth is.
The centre runs a wide range of short 'courses', mainly for employed people - with the overall objective of improving business performance.
Evaluation is my main area of interest so I have some basic principles in mind. But why reinvent the wheel totally? If anyone could point me at some existing good practice, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks,
Mike Ellison
Evaluation Manager, Tyneside TEC, Moongate House, 5th Ave. Business park, Team Valley, GATESHEAD, NE11 0HF.
(Sorry if this is a familiar request , but I seem to be incompatible with the Muscat website search engine)
Mike Ellison
6 Responses
Evaluation
http://myrtle.forest.net/fenman/search.htm
The above web site is worth visiting.
Search the archive with the following key words:
Training Evaluation Form
and you will find numerous responses.
The following web site is also worth visiting:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rogg/evaluate/methods1.htm
Garry Platt
garry.platt@wgrange.com
Participant Evaluation Questionnaires
I have a short article about PE Questionnaires in Adobe PDF format that includes a model questionnaire form.
It won’t solve all of your problem, but might be useful to you. Please download from:
http://www.swtch.com.au/dwpca/freebies.html
Wrong Web Address
Mr Henry’s web address is slightly wrong; he’s added an ‘l’, it should read:
http://www.swtch.com.au/dwpca/freebies.htm
Thanks and comments
Thanks Gary & Robin – just what I was looking for and they’ll be a great help when working with this customer’.
Just a personal observation however, my experence is that questions which start “How much” tend to get a better response than those starting “What”. So I’ll be doing some adaptions.
Mike
Training evaluation
Mike, if you would like a copy of my brilliant training evaluation toolkit please email me at ewn1@cant.ac.uk and I will send it to you as a Word attachment which you can modify to suit your needs.
Best wishes, Eddie Newall.
Thanks
I would like to add my thanks to Gary and Robin, as I too have tried differnet ways of obtaining meaningful feedback from a course.
The information gives me a new way of looking at it
Thank you