Using Training Evaluation to Improve Practice

2016 ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Japheth Kipkorir Koech ◽  
Kimberly Stokes Pak
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Training Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Lesson Learn ◽  
Training Case ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Improve Practice

By providing you with a detailed description of our upgrade training case, we hope you would be able to (a) relate and compare our case descriptions, environment, processes to your organization and environment, (b) Identify similarities and difference between our cases, and (c) Develop possible action plan based on our lesson learn to carry out your training and evaluations needs. In our lesson learned, look for tools that work best for you depending on your environment to conduct training and evaluations (Beebe et al., 2012). Locate or create your training and evaluation data because they are very useful in improving your training for your learners (Phillips, 1997). Following-up extreme feedback after training evaluation (Goad, 2010) either directly in person or through related channel allows you to evaluate and gain more insight into learner's reactions.

Using reflection. Mentoring midwifery students in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Hawley ◽  
Anthony Tuckett
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Constructivist Theory ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Teaching And Learning Strategies ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose: This study aims to offer guidance to lecturers and undergraduate midwifery students in using reflective practice and to offer a roadmap for academic staff accompanying undergraduate midwifery students on international clinical placements. Design: Drawing on reflection within the Constructivist Theory, the Gibbs Reflective Cycle (GRC) provides opportunities to review experiences and share new knowledge by working through five stages—feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. Findings:  The reflections of the midwifery students in this study provide insight into expectations prior to leaving for international placement, practical aspects of what local knowledge is beneficial, necessary teaching and learning strategies and the students’ cultural awareness growth. Implications: The analysis and a reflective approach have wider implications for universities seeking to improve preparations when embarking on an international clinical placement. It can also inform practices that utilise reflection as an impetus to shape midwifery students to be more receptive to global health care issues. 

'University is a place of imagination where anything can happen': evaluating widening participation initiatives with young children

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-245
Author(s):  
Katherine Sela ◽  
Naomi Winstone
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Evaluation Data ◽  
Drawing Tasks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

There is increasing awareness of the importance of working with younger children in widening participation initiatives. While typical evaluation methods, such as feedback questionnaires, may be appropriate for collating evidence of the impact of initiatives with older children and teenagers, these tools are less appropriate for younger children. In the context of the evaluation of a campus-based creative writing programme for 9- to 10-year-old children, this paper discusses the utility of creative approaches to evaluation. Prior to and following their visit to a university campus, children completed a worksheet to gain their perspectives of university through sentence completion, comparison and drawing tasks. These methods provide insight into how children's perspectives are shaped by visiting a university campus, as well as differences between those who do and do not know someone who has attended university. We present snapshots of the evaluation data and discuss the implications for evaluation of widening participation initiatives with young children.

scholarly journals Planning and conducting internal audit in practice in the private sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-74
Author(s):  
Zorica Jović
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Internal Auditor ◽  
Internal Auditors ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Audit Sampling ◽  
Insight Into

During the data collection process to understand and assess risk, internal auditors gain significant insight into operations and opportunities for improvement that can be extremely beneficial to the organization. This paper presents valuable insights into practical work that will assist internal auditors in the process of planning and conducting internal audit in the private sector. In the process of internal audit, it primarily starts from planning through the creation of an audit universe that includes a list of all potential audits based on risk and exposure assessment. The chief audit executive develops an annual action plan based on the audit universe. The annual plan should be broken down into four quarters and each defined audit should be arbitrarily assigned to one quarter. The beginning of the process of the planned audit begins with preparatory activities that include defining the objectives of the individual audit, preparation of a detailed schedule of the individual audit, conducting a preliminary survey. What follows is that audit sampling techniques (defined as the application of audit procedures to less than 100% of items within a class of transactions or account balance so that each sample unit has a chance to be selected) perform sample selection from the population. According to the selected model, the audit is approached on the basis of which the opinion of the internal auditor is issued in the created engagement report.

scholarly journals Strategic Planning Applied to Small Businesses: A Case Study in Maués - Amazonas

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 291-300
Author(s):  
Paloma Paiva de Lima ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Alexandra Priscilla Tregue Costa ◽  
Antônio Estanislau Sanches
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Production Engineering ◽  
Current Economic Situation ◽  
Insight Into

This paper aims to present the application of strategic planning for small companies and the tools that help their development in the context of production engineering. Since strategic planning and tools such as SWOT analysis, GUT matrix, brainstorming and 5W2H are of great importance in the business environment, especially in the current economic situation, where companies need to have a differential to stay in a highly competitive market. competitive. This makes the use of methods and tools indispensable, as it is through them that the company can clearly and objectively gain insight into its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as develop an action plan to defined strategies ensuring greater productivity.

scholarly journals Do we Understand Sustainability? An Architectural Insight Into the Origin of the Concept

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tushar Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Current Definition ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
Insight Into

Sustainability is a concept shrouded in abstraction. While we have definitions in existence, it is often difficult to explain the concept itself. The current definition of ‘sustainable development’ was given by the Brundtland Commission’s report in 1987. The Earth Summit at Rio in 1992 gave us Agenda 21, an action plan to achieve sustainable development. Now in the 21st century, philosophers, academicians, and researchers across the globe are paving the way for a new understanding of the term ‘sustainability’, its contextual nature, and its relation to humans, politics, and ecology. This article investigates the origins of the term ‘sustainability’, its derivatives, and the concept of sustainable development. A semantical analysis is carried out to understand the differences between ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’. Next, the development of the three pillars of sustainability and the application of these concepts in the field of architecture and design is also investigated.

Zoonoses Action Plan Salmonella Monitoring Programme: An Investigation of the Sampling Protocol

2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. SNARY ◽  
D. K. MUNDAY ◽  
M. E. ARNOLD ◽  
A. J. C. COOK
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Sampling Protocol ◽  
Meat Juice ◽  
Cutoff Points ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Group B ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

The Zoonoses Action Plan (ZAP) Salmonella Programme was established by the British Pig Executive to monitor Salmonella prevalence in quality-assured British pigs at slaughter by testing a sample of pigs with a meat juice enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibodies against group B and C1 Salmonella. Farms were assigned a ZAP level (1 to 3) depending on the monitored prevalence, and ZAP 2 or 3 farms were required to act to reduce the prevalence. The ultimate goal was to reduce the risk of human salmonellosis attributable to British pork. A mathematical model has been developed to describe the ZAP sampling protocol. Results show that the probability of assigning a farm the correct ZAP level was high, except for farms that had a seroprevalence close to the cutoff points between different ZAP levels. Sensitivity analyses identified that the probability of assigning a farm to the correct ZAP level was dependent on the sensitivity and specificity of the test, the number of batches taken to slaughter each quarter, and the number of samples taken per batch. The variability of the predicted seroprevalence was reduced as the number of batches or samples increased and, away from the cutoff points, the probability of being assigned the correct ZAP level increased as the number of batches or samples increased. In summary, the model described here provided invaluable insight into the ZAP sampling protocol. Further work is required to understand the impact of the program for Salmonella infection in British pig farms and therefore on human health.

Calibration problems in hydrogen luminosities

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 322-330
Author(s):  
A. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Structure ◽  
B Stars ◽  
Insight Into

The investigations which I should like to summarize in this paper concern recent photo-electric luminosity determinations of O and B stars. Their final aim has been the derivation of new stellar distances, and some insight into certain patterns of galactic structure.

Stochasting modeling of planetary ring systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Entropy ◽  
Ring System ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Ultimate State ◽  
Interparticle Interactions ◽  
Ring Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Planetary Ring ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThis paper models maximum entropy configurations of idealized gravitational ring systems. Such configurations are of interest because systems generally evolve toward an ultimate state of maximum randomness. For simplicity, attention is confined to ultimate states for which interparticle interactions are no longer of first order importance. The planets, in their orbits about the sun, are one example of such a ring system. The extent to which the present approximation yields insight into ring systems such as Saturn's is explored briefly.

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