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Make sure that results meet objectives in learning

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, July 21, 2006

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Your objectives, when training a nursing staff, provide the basis for how you evaluate learning. For instance, if the objective is to achieve competence in a psychomotor skill, then safe, accurate demonstration of skill acquisition can measure learning. If the objective is to achieve intellectual, didactic knowledge, then a written test may be the best way to measure learning.

After you determine the best way to assess knowledge/skills before and after the learning activity, consider the following as part of your evaluation process:

• How clear are your instructions for the completion of pre- and post-learning tests? This is especially important for distance learning activities when the only way to explain this issue is via the written word or as part of an audio tape.
• Are written materials prepared at the appropriate reading level for the learners?

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course, "Nursing CE Series: Successful Strategies for Training Your Nursing Staff." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com/.

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