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The relationship between trainee responses on participant reaction forms and posttest scores
Author(s) -
Dixon Nancy M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.3920010204
Subject(s) - psychology , relevance (law) , perception , medical education , applied psychology , social psychology , mathematics education , medicine , neuroscience , political science , law
In many organizations, the responses to participant reaction forms are the only data managers use when they decide to offer or revise a training course. Is this appropriate? To address this question the author studied the relationship between posttests (tests taken after the course is finished) and the responses on participants' forms for 1,200 trainees in a large manufacturing company. Although the study found no useful correlation between posttest scores and participants' perceptions of (a) the relevance of the course, (b) their own learning, (c) their enjoyment, or (d) the skill of the instructors, it found significant correlations between participants' enjoyment and the ratings of the instructors.