Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall The training cycle Plan, Do, Follow-up! (revisited)

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Training: An organizational activity that aims at changing the KSAOs of a definite group of people KSAOs: Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Others. The components of a person’s potential for performance together with Motivation

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall When does it all start?? Answer the question: is there an organizational problem that can be solved by training?? Remember: AEGEE case

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall How does it start?? ANALYSIS of 3 core areas: Organizational analysis What does the org want/need?? Job or Task Analysis Goals of learning programme?? Person Analysis Who needs training??

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Ergo… PLAN!! Design a training programme containing the following: –ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS –LEARNING GOALS –TARGET GROUP And don’t forget to include the EVALUATION CRITERIA into the training programme!!!

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Once the training is over… Wonder: was there change??? T1T2 Training…

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall 4 Main CRITERIA I. Reaction Criteria Participant’s opinions Yeah, the training was useful for me! II. Learning Criteria Meeting Programme objectives All of them passed the final exam evaluation Based on the job or task analysis (see “plan”)

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall 4 Main CRITERIA III. Behaviour Criteria Transfer of training KSAOs to workplace They now work implementing what they learned Based also on job and task analysis (see “plan”) IV. Results Criteria Meeting Organizational Needs. The organization now performs much better!! Based on organizational analysis (see “plan”)

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall OK, so we did change people… Was the change due to the training programme??  Concept of internal validity  How was the training designed?

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Threats to internal validity History Maturation Testing Instrumentation Regression to the mean Mortality Need of a CONTROL GROUP

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Other Threats to internal validity Diffusion of treatment Compensatory rivalry Demoralization  pay attention to training development & implementation

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall OK, so we did change people with our training programme Will we be able to do that again??  Concept of external validity  Can the training be generalized?  To whom? In which situations?

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Threats to external validity Hawthorne effect Pygmalion effect (the self-fulfilling prophecy) Little to be done about it…. :(

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall And then, what??? Designing training programmes is also a learning process by itself. The results of previous trainings can and should be taken into account.

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Summing it up: PLAN: Research organizational problems and needs, people’s characteristics, and previous training experiences.

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Summing it up (ii) DO/ACT: Establish control mechanisms (control groups). Assure transferability of knowledge to the daily activities of the trained. Look for multiplier’s effects.

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Summing it up (iii) FOLLOW UP: The training does not end when the last participant leaves. Evaluate carefully with the criteria established in the PLAN phase.

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Are there any questions??

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall How does this apply to a Youth NGO like e.g. AEGEE? I have one…

Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l‘Europe European Students‘ Forum Training for Trainers Nowy Sacz – August 2001 Training Cycle Lecture by Carlos Miragall Thank you all very much for your attention.