How can you use a performance evaluation to improve your training?

First of all you need to set up specific standards or SOPs to easily assess and evaluate the performance of your learners. These standards will give you a clear picture of your learners against the set standards. It is obvious that standards should be set according to the competencies and capabilities of your learners and their learning outcomes. You have various tools, you can use to set your parameters i.e. SMART goals, rubrics, competency frameworks. Now its your responsibility to ensure that these parameters must be well defined, clear to understand, measureable, align with orgaganizational goals and aytainable within specific time frame.

Now its time to collect and analyze the data in order to evaluate the learners' performance. One thing important to remember is that you should select the methods depending upon the availability of resources which make sure effective data collection, aligned with learning aims and calibre of your audience. The methods may be like assessments, quizzes, discussions, interviews, etc. In this way, you will abe able to decide best and effective method to collect data, and it will ensure you to provide useful and meangingful information ready for your action plan.

Its very important to give confidence to your learners and tell them your main objective and expectations to evaluate them. Also comminicate them that how this evaluation process will give them chance to identify your weaknesses and convert them into your strengths. It truly fair to provide learners level playing field by communicating to them the entire evaluation process and the parameters on the basis of which they will be evaluated. Hold their hands, ensure your support to them and make them feel that this evaluation process will lead them to growth and nurture their abilities Give them confidence that you will provide them constructive feedback that will them to improve their overall performance.

Set clear goals, expectations and levels of achievement from everyone on the course. Make sure every opportunity whether working together of on their own there are SMART goals attached. Make sure at the end of the course everyone has a one on one with the senior trainer. That way feedback is gathered for improvement and also people feel they were listened too.

This process must be free from nepotisim and conducted on merit. Now you have set standards and parameters, just follow them by keeping in mind the core objective of this evaluation. In this way, you may have maximum chance to collect more reliable and accurate information for judging the learners' performance and to take corrective actions. You should have proper system to document and collect the data honestly and to keep it at a safe place.