NCJ Number
124330
Date Published
1990
Length
162 pages
Annotation
This book presents an improved, comprehensive model for evaluating police management training.
Abstract
The model synthesizes existing evaluation approaches to develop a multi-factor approach appropriate for police management development programs. The evaluation model has five major parts: assessment of the needs of the program's various interest groups to determine whether the program meets their needs, determination of how well official descriptions of the course coincide with the actual program, assessment of whether participants meet the program's objectives, discovery of how the program affects subsequent student behavior or job performance, and provision of information to help program administrators determine the strengths and weaknesses of the course. The model's effectiveness was tested by applying it to the evaluation of the 4-week Police Executive Development Program conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Government and by distributing a description of it to a sample of North Carolina chiefs of police to obtain their reactions to it. Appended materials used in the evaluation, subject index, 45-item bibliography.