Material for the lesson, part of the Curriculum Design Course, developed by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo
Conducting a training evaluation allows you to make continuous improvements to the training and lets your Department managers know what benefits have resulted from their investment in your training efforts.
Training impacts on both internal and external customers. The community expects that its police officers will be both knowledgeable and well trained. Police management expects the hours and money invested in training will be of benefit. Officers want to feel that they have been prepared adequately to perform their duties and responsibilities. A systematic training evaluation process can help to determine if your training meets those needs.
Conducting a training evaluation is the definitive method for determining if the training programme that you have developed will be successful. A well thought-out training evaluation includes both a formative and summative evaluation.
The Aim of this Unit is to allow you to plan and conduct a four-level evaluation of a training programme.
At the end of this lesson you will be able to: