Course assessment
What is a course assessment?
A course assessment is an evaluation of the course by the participants themselves
How to use a course assessment
There are three phases:
- preparation
- conduction
- analysis
Preparation
Identify what aspects of the course you want feedback on. For example:
- course organisation
- accommodation and domestic arrangements
- difficulty and number of topics
- pace of presentation
- level of understanding
- achievement of objectives
- suggestions for improvement
Prepare a questionnaire and duplicate it:
- keep it simple
- use check boxes
- keep the need for sentence writing to a minimum
Conduction
- Brief the participants: they are to work alone; it is individual opinions that you want. The assessment is anonymous; they should not write their names on the questionnaires
- Hand out the questionnaires
- Leave them alone to write
- Collect in the questionnaires
Analysis
- Scrutinise each questionnaire and extract the data in tabular form
- Summarise the results for presentation to management
- Note the main conclusions and decide upon action for future course design and organisation
When to use course assessment
- At the very end of the course
Why use course assessment
- To get feedback from course participants on how well the course satisfied their needs and expectations
Source: Adapted from the International Course on Training of Trainers in Labour-Based Road Construction and Maintenance, compiled by David J Mason