John Hatcher, Director of Educational Programs at the Center for Community Journalism, uses this evaluation form to follow training programs.

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On-site training evaluation

Thank you for participating in the Center for Community Journalism’s on-site training program. To help us assist you in working toward the skills taught in our training session, and to help improve future training sessions, please take a moment to complete this form.
Name: ______________________________
e-mail: ______________________________
Position: ______________________________
Newspaper: ______________________________


Section 1: Training session.

The following questions refer to the content of the training received.

 

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1. Will improve my job performance.

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2. Exercises effectively developed skills.

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3. Components of course were relevant/useful.

5

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4. Covered too much material.

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5. Covered too little material.

5

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6. Clarified purpose and outcomes of exercises.

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7. Appropriate amount of class participation.

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8. Helped participants see the relevance and importance of material to their jobs.

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Section 2. Post-training performance

  1. I have____ have not ____ been able to apply what I learned in training to my job because.

If you have not, please continue to No. 2. If you have, please skip No. 2.

2. I have not been able to apply what I learned in training to my job because:

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disagree

a. I haven’t had time to try to apply it

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b. I needed more support from others to help me apply it.

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c. I felt uncomfortable applying it.

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d. The necessary resources, supplies or facilities were not available.

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e. Too much time passed between the training and the opportunity to apply it.

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f. I did not learn what was necessary to apply it.

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g. The information wasn’t relevant to my job.

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h. Other (please specify)

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  1. After the training, I was able to begin applying these skills:

    2. a. The next day. b. Within a week c. Within two weeks d. Within a month e. Already using skills.

  2. The skills I learned are important for successfully performing my job.

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Neutral

Disagree

Strongly
disagree

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5. I needed support and coaching from others in order to begin applying these skills to my job.

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Agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly
disagree

5

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1

 

 

 

6. Please clarify your answers, if necessary. Please Identify the question numbers.

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7. Looking back on the training and your efforts to apply what you learned, how do you think the training could be improved to better help others?

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