Enumerate the Principles of Evaluation

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Evaluation “involves the systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics and outcomes of programs, personnel, and product to reduce uncertainties, improve effectiveness and make decisions with regard to what those programs, personnel, or products are doing and affecting. The benefits of evaluations are: • Assess effectiveness and impact of training • Determine factors that lead to program success or failure • Identify areas for program improvement Evaluations may be undertaken at any time, and they are generally most effective when they are conducted as an integral aspect of the program. Ongoing evaluations provide an opportunity to address training goals and objectives that may have changed over time. For achieving the desired result evaluation has to be based on sound principles. The way that these principles are applied will depend on the context of the evaluation. The evaluation principles include: a. Clarity – Trainers/Evaluator must be clear about the purpose of evaluation in order to set the standards and criteria of evaluation. b. Validity - Comprehensively and accurately identifies: • the needs that are to be met by a training program • the evidence that would indicate whether those needs are being met, the extent to which they are being met c. Objectivity requires: • measurable standards of assessment • designing of valid and reliable research instruments • detached analysis and interpretation of data in order to stand the test of time. d. Reliability - Subjective analysis of evaluation data cannot produce reliable results. For evaluation to be reliable the results should confirm: • Irrespective of the method used to gather the data. • When repeated by the same trainer again • When interpreted by any other person. Normally a good trainer uses more than one method of data gathering and data

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