Evaluating Program Effectiveness

Student opinion questionnaires—Informal discussions with employees can help employers determine the relevance and appropriateness of the training program. 

Supervisors observations—Supervisors are in good positions to observe an employee s performance both before and after the training and note improvements or changes. 

Workplace improvements—The ultimate success of a training program may bechangesthroughoutthe workplace that result in reduced injury or accident rates. 

However it is condueted, an evaluation of training can give employers the information neeessary to deeide whether or not employees achieved the desired results, and whether the training session should be offered again at some future date. 

Were parts of the content already known and, therefore, unnecessary  

It may be necessary to repeat steps in the training process, that is, to return to the first steps and retrace one s way through the training process. As the program is evaluated, the employer should ask  

Were the important gaps in knowledge and skill included  

Was material already known by the employees intentionally omitted  

Were the instructional ohjectives presented clearly and concretely  

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Indicator—A measurement used to evaluate program effectiveness within an organization. 

Quantitative measures of standard threshold shift (STS) and noise measurements are used for evaluating program effectiveness, but do not provide qualitative information about the processes that contributed to these data outcomes. 

Indicator a measurement nsed to evaluate program effectiveness within an organization Indoor air quality the stndy, evaluation, and control of indoor air quality related to tanperature, humidity, and building contaminants... 

Evaluate program effectiveness. The classic model for training evaluation was developed by Donald L. Kirkpatrick. It is built around four levels ... 

Practical considerations enter into the experimental plan in various other ways. In many programs, variables are introduced at different operational levels. For example, in evaluating the effect of alloy composition, oven temperature, and varnish coat on tensile strength, it may be convenient to make a number of master alloys with each composition, spHt the alloys into separate parts to be subjected to different heat treatments, and then cut the treated samples into subsamples to which different coatings are appHed. Tensile strength measurements are then obtained on all coated subsamples. 

The employer is required to address in its written program the type of regular surveillance of the workplace necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of the respirator program. Other items discussed in the standard include ... 

Contractors at Sites C and H had acceptable programs for monitoring the effectiveness of PPE and decontamination procedures. The Site H contractor had established PPE and decontamination programs consistent with HAZWOPER requirements. The Site C contractor developed decontamination procedures that included specifications for periodically evaluating the effectiveness of decontamination methods... 

Periodically, the SEMP elements should be audited to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Auditing should be conducted by qualified personnel through interviews and inspections. If audits consist < y find no deficiencies in the program, then management should conclude that... 

Boverie, P., Sanchez Mulcahy, D. and Zondlo, J. A. (1994). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Training Programs. At http //hale.pepperdine.edu/ cscunha/Pages/KIRK.HTM... 

The authors and editors of this book wish to acknowledge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Electric Power Research Institute, who sponsored a Society of Enviromnental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) workshop in September 2003 in Pensacola, Florida. More than 30 international experts gathered to discuss and propose a framework for a national mercury monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of mercury emissions controls on mercury concentrations in the enviromnent. This book and a companion journal publication (Mason et al. 2005) are the products of the workshop and subsequent efforts. 

When he interviewed with Meyer in 1926, Mark outlined a typically thorough program. He proposed a team of organic and physical chemists, and physicists who would evaluate the influence of structure on properties such as rigidity, elasticity, melting point, and water absorption. Work, he proposed, would shift toward new material development and into the manufacturing facilities to evaluate the effects of processing... 

EPA is conducting an extensive study in order to more fully understand the impact of the premanufacturing review program on innovation in new chemicals. Although the lack of data in this area is discouraging, we are doing the best we can to quantitatively evaluate the effect on both the input (in terms of R D dollars) and the output (in terms of new chemical substances) of the innovative process. 

By varying the geometries in the program, an optimum design can be achieved. The choice of column diameter was a critical decision in the optimization procedure. In order to evaluate the effect of changing the column diameter, various column diameters were used and the number of trays required was determined. The results of these test runs are shown in Table G.l... 

Two studies evaluated the effects of lipid-lowering therapy on clinical endpoints in the leg. The Program on the Surgical Control of the Hyperlipidemias was a randomized trial of partial ileal-bypass surgery for the treatment of hyperlipidemia in 838 patients (9). After five years, the relative risk (RR) of an abnormal ankle-brachial index value (ABI) was 0.6 (95% Cl, 0.4 to 0.9, absolute risk reduction, 15% points, p < 0.01), and the RR of claudication or limb-threatening ischemia was 0.7 (95% Cl, 0.2 to 0.9, absolute risk reduction, 7% points, p < 0.01), as compared with the control group. 

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