Self-Evaluation Guidance.

DOE-STD-1077-94

11.2 Self-Evaluation Guidance. The team focuses its attention on training programs

from two perspectives as it conducts the initial self-evaluation. One perspective is

macroscopic or overall; the other is microscopic, the details. The questions the team

considers to acquire the macroscopic perspective include:

What is the training program specifically attempting to accomplish? What are the

program goals?

What knowledge and skills must employees possess and how are they identified?

Is the training program effectively designed to enable employees to acquire the

knowledge and skills?

What are the strengths and successes of the training program?

What are the training program's weaknesses, limitations, and inadequacies?

When assessing the relative strengths and inadequacies of existing training, the team's

key focus is to determine how well the program meets the needs of the trainees and the

job. Are they satisfied with the product? What specific improvements or changes does

the program need?

To acquire the detailed perspective, the team must look at the details. To achieve this

perspective, team members are assigned responsibility for the investigation of designated

program elements. Team members set out to find answers to the question, "Does this

training program element meet the corresponding objective or criteria?".

The self-evaluation team makes use of the following resources to conduct its review:

The accreditation objectives and criteria, with amplifying explanations;

Facility training policies and procedures;

Training program descriptions;

Cognizant training developers, instructors, supervisors and managers, and line

managers, supervisors, and selected trainees;

Training materials (lesson plans and guides, student handouts, tests, etc.);

Facility procedures (administrative, operating, maintenance, etc.);