It's one thing to evaluate a program and another to evaluate a person.
Getting additional information from the trainee on whether they effectively gained the competence needed to perform the skill on which he was trained will help you evaluate the program. If you want individuals to perform self ratings at the end of a training program, consider carefully whether you are asking them to a) rate their success or b) the success of the program in enabling them to accomplish specific tasks and acquire specific knowledge.
Here are a few questions you can ask to help focus just on the course and evaluate the perceived level of effectiveness of the course:
- Rate yourself on a scale of 10 to 1 (10 being excellent; 5 average; 1 poor) on how you feel about your ability to perform the skills included in the course.
- If there is any skill taught in the course where you would rate yourself less than 5 please list that skill below.
- Please list some things you can now do that you couldn't do prior to the course.
- Please list things you thought you would be able to do at the close of the course that you don’t feel you can do.
- On what areas would you have liked to spend more time and what additional skills would you like to have acquired if time had permitted?
