Evaluation Of Training

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EVALUATION OF TRAINING In common parlance, evaluation is the objective assessment of the past to facilitate better forecasting and controlling of the future. In the context of training, it is used to determine the effectiveness of a training programme. Hamblin defined it as “any attempt to obtain information (feedback) on the effects of a training programme, and to assess the value of the training in the light of that information”. Evaluation in whatever language it is defined should involve the following important elements: 1. Evaluation is a planned process; 2. It aims at improving the Knowledge and skill of the participants, changing his behavior in the organization, improving other key result areas of he organization such as cost of production, absenteeism and turnover rate as well as taking, decisions about the desirability, nature and content of future training. 3. It involves collection to information from the trainees (on both pre – training and post – training situation), from his superiors, his subordinates and peers. 4. Training is evaluated in terms of objectively variable standards or criteria. LEVELS OF EVALUATION 1. REACTION 2. LEARNING 3. JOB BEHAVIOUR 4. RESULTS 1. REACTION: This reflects the feelings of the trainees about the training programme, its methods, contents, quality of the speaker, physical facilities of the programme, suggestion about what will make the programme more effective, etc. 1.2 Uses 1. The trainer gets the views of the participants about the methods, contents and nature of the training programme. This helps him to modify, revise and improve the subsequent part of the same programme or the subsequent programmes. 2. The participants get a common forum to ventilate their individual feelings which facilitates the trainers to understand the situation and take corrective measure so that communication
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