Year : 2018, Volume : 14, Issue : 1
First page : ( 25) Last page : ( 32)
Print ISSN : 2230-9047. Online ISSN : 2231-6736. Published online : 2018  1.

Perception of the trainees on the model training course: A post training assessment

Roy Aparna¹, Som Sukanya^*,1, Das B.K.¹, Pandit Arun¹, Das Archan Kanti¹

¹ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore-700120, Kolkata

*Corresponding author email id: sukuehs@gmail.com

Received:  00  November,  2018; :  00  January,  2019.

Abstract

Considering the growing importance of enclosure culture in inland fisheries sector in India, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India sponsored a Model Training Course (MTC) for the officers working in the fisheries sector with an intent to build their capacity which would eventually trickle down to the end users of technology. The present study was undertaken to measure both pre-training and post-training perception of the twenty-six officers across eleven states of the country about the training programme on enclosure culture conducted by the ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute from 23^rd to 29^th August 2017. A pre-training need assessment with the help of priority matrix revealed highest training need for cage culture in reservoir, feeding and disease management followed by water quality and species selection in cage culture. Post training assessment of overall quality of the training programme showed that 50 per cent of the participants rated the training programme as excellent while, 34.62 per cent perceived it as very good and 15.38 per cent as good. All the participants perceived the training programme to be helpful to improve their job performances and 60 per cent of them expressed willingness to conduct farmers’ training on the same topic in future. 53.84 per cent stated that their expectations were fulfilled “to a great extent” and for rest of the trainees it was “to some extent”. Further, significant positive as sociation was found between the normalized scores of training need and fulfilment of expectation of the trainees with the help of correlation coefficient at 5 per cent level of significance (r=0.632, P=0.000). Significant correlation coefficient was also found between the normalized scores of expressed training needs of the topics and Rank Based Quotients (RBQs) of the perceived values of topics covered under the programme at 5 per cent level of significance (r=0.763, p=0.006). This indicates accomplishment of the training needs of the trainees by the sessions taken under the programme. The findings of this study could be useful for conducting and improving similar type of model training courses in future.

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Keywords

MTC, Perception, Post-training assessment.

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