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Can we get reports on the increase in learning in each course?

NECI can employ a variety of evaluation techniques to demonstrate an increase in learning, depending on your organization's needs and budget. We work with you to provide valid and reliable evaluation results that are focussed on your concerns. We can use the following techniques:

Electronic gathering of data

Post-course evaluations to capture comments from the learners

Aggregate measurements showing increase in knowledge and skills

Focus groups run by independent facilitators

Academic studies of effectiveness

 

Most of our courses use pre- and post-course assessments to test the learner's awareness of concepts and their ability to make judgements using typical contracting scenarios. In advance of the classroom portion of the course, each learner completes an online assessment consisting of 10-15 questions.

 

After the training, each learner completes a post-course assessment, another set of 10-15 questions. Comparing the aggregate totals of the baseline (pre-course assessment) to the final outcome (post-course validation) provides a concrete measure of increases in knowledge and skills.

 

For example, in the PCMP course, Law and Ethics for Competitive Procurement, delivered on behalf of the Province of B.C., participants knowledge typically increased by as much as 64%. For the approximately 2500 people who attended PCMP courses in the past two years, the average increase was 28%.