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Abstract
Training programmes are evaluated to verify their effectiveness, assess their ability to achieve their goals and identify the areas that require improvement. Therefore, the target of evaluators is to develop an appropriate framework for evaluating training programmes. This study adapted Kirkpatrick’s four-level model of training criteria published in 1959 to evaluate training programmes for head teachers according to their own perceptions and those of their supervisors. The adapted model may help evaluators to conceptualise the assessment of learning outcomes of training programmes with metrics and instruments. The model also helps to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the training process. The adaptation includes concrete metrics and instruments for each of the four levels in the model: reaction criteria, learning criteria, behaviour criteria and results criteria. The adapted model was applied to evaluate 12 training programmes for female head teachers in Saudi Arabia. The study sample comprised 250 trainee head teachers and 12 supervisors. The results indicated that the adapted Kirkpatrick evaluation model was very effective in evaluating educational training for head teachers.
Highlights
Much of the research on the effectiveness and development of schools has high-lighted the vital role that head teachers play in making schools more effective and education more successful by carrying out their duties and responsibilities [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Since this study is in the field of education, the evaluation at the results level differs from that of the business training sector, since the academic environment differs in certain aspects, such as stakeholders and results; it is necessary to adapt the process of evaluation to the academic field [87]
Schleicher [5] states that a number of studies have suggested that development programmes for head teachers influence student achievement only indirectly, they show that head teachers who participate in these programmes change practices within the school that lead to better learning and teaching and, enhanced outcomes
Summary
Much of the research on the effectiveness and development of schools has high-lighted the vital role that head teachers play in making schools more effective and education more successful by carrying out their duties and responsibilities [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Today’s head teachers are tasked with ever-increasing responsibilities and multifaceted roles, which include communication with students, staff and parents, community management and communication, administrative and financial duties, crisis and conflict management, curriculum monitoring and professional development opportunities and evaluations for teachers [7,8]. Educational institutions organise training programmes that help head teachers to perform their tasks and responsibilities effectively. 820) defines the evaluation of training as “a process that may be used to determine the effectiveness and/or efficiency of instructional programmes”. The evaluation is used in different ways, with various implications; it occurs at multiple levels, for example, in classrooms, programmes, courses, general education and in institutions [26]
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