PDA 308.1 Training Effectiveness: What’s Your Design Strategy?

Short of taking a semester long course on testing and evaluation, this two-part online training course condenses effectiveness strategies and evaluation techniques into an abbreviated focus and attention around two key themes:

• Why your effectiveness strategy needs to be more than a survey and knowledge check
• The need to ask the right questions about measuring and evaluating training effectiveness

This blended training course will provide insights and techniques to help Compliance Trainers and QA L&D professionals design an effectiveness strategy that includes techniques to analyze and evaluate learning event efforts that contribute to quality goals and business results.

The training course includes pre-course assignment, online content/participation, and post course assignment. Attendees will participate in virtual activities and exercises.

Requisite: Some familiarity with conducting popular evaluation tools such as surveys, knowledge checks and generating “metrics” reports is suggested prior to attending this training course.

Disclaimer: This training course will not include specific content for evaluating departures from SOPs and GMP violations.

1. Assess current knowledge and skill set and begin to chart a general development path forward
2. Create a design plan for identifying where evaluations are needed, the type of measurement tools to use, and how to report effectiveness results
3. Build a test blueprint using course supplied template to ensure content validity
4. Perform an item analysis for written assessments to provide test reliability scoring
5. Develop valid test questions following basic principles of good test construction (post course assignment)