EDUC 240 Lecture 11: The Evaluation of Training_Lesson 11
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Summative evaluations: summative evaluations refers to the provision of data about the worthiness or effectiveness of a training program. Measuring behaviors: typical ways to measure behaviors are: self-reports. Political barriers: a trainer avoiding conducting an evaluation because they fear the perception of a conflict of interest is an example of apolitical barrier to training evaluation. Perceived support: refers to the degree to which the trainee reports receiving support in his or her attempts to transfer the learning skills. Non-experimental designs: concept in research that refers to when the comparison is not made to another group of untrained people. Coma: cognitive, organizational, motivational, attitudinal, cognitive: level of learning, procedural and declarative, trainee has gained from program, organizational: collection of different variables generated by work environment impacting the transfer of learning, motivational: 2) motivation to transfer: measured immediately following the program: attitudinal: feelings and thinking processes of individuals; self-efficacy, perceptions of control and expections (self, environment)