Student and Supervisor Training Validation Surveys

Level III Eval ILT Supervisor 080712

Student and Supervisor Training Validation Surveys

OMB: 1140-0095

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OMB No. 1140-0095 (xx/xx/xxxx)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Office of Human Resources and Professional Development
Instructor-Led Training Validation Survey
(Supervisor Survey for ATF In-Person Training)

Letter for Level III, Behavior, Survey – Supervisor
Thank you for sending your employee to ATF Office of Human Resources and Professional Development (HRPD)
training, [field to insert title of course]. HRPD is committed to excellence while providing current and effective training.
Your feedback about the usefulness of HRPD training to prepare your employee to perform his or her job duties is very
important to us. Please provide us with information about your satisfaction with your employee’s experience by
completing this survey, which will take about 10 minutes to complete.
As with any survey from HRPD, your participation is voluntary. Your responses and comments will be used to review the
effectiveness of the training and to update courses so that they continue to meet your staff’s requirements.
Please select the following link to begin the survey [field to insert ATF Survey].

Privacy Act Information
This information is provided pursuant to Public Law 93-579 (Privacy Act of 1974) December 31, 1974, relative to the
collection of information from prospective students to attend the ATF Training.
1. Authority. Title 38, U.S.C., §527; Title 29, U.S.C., §711; Title 31, U.S.C., §1115, Executive Order 13540.
2. Purpose. To obtain information from Federal, State and local, military and international law enforcement
personnel completing training conducted by ATF for the purpose of evaluating program effectiveness.
3. Routine Uses. Disclosure of evaluation results as collected data summaries will be provided to ATF management
and training staff in order to make decisions regarding program improvement and the allocation of resources.
Evaluation results will be provided to external Federal government agencies on an as needed basis. Individual
personal data will be treated as law enforcement sensitive information and will be protected in accordance to Title
5, U.S.C. §552. Individual responses to survey questions will not be available upon request to the individual, to
the individual's parent agency, or to any other individual or agency as the system used to collect that data does
not store the information in a manner that an individual’s responses can be retrieved.

Paperwork Reduction Act Notice
This request is in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection is used to determine
the effectiveness of training programs provided by or utilized by ATF. The estimated average burden associated with this
collection is 10 minutes per respondent or recordkeeper, depending on individual circumstances.
Comments concerning the accuracy of this burden estimate and suggestions for reducing this burden should be directed
to the Reports Management Officer, Document Services Branch, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,
Washington DC 20226.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

Thank you for sending your employee to ATF Office of Human Resources and Professional Development (HRPD) training, [field to
insert title of course]. HRPD is committed to excellence while providing current and effective training. Your feedback about the
usefulness of HRPD training to prepare your employee to perform his or her job duties is very important to us. Please provide us with
information about your satisfaction with your employee’s experience by completing this survey, which will take about 10 minutes to
complete. As with any survey from HRPD, your participation is voluntary. Your responses and comments will be used to review the
effectiveness of the training and to update courses so that they continue to meet your staff’s requirements.
Navigation
The Next button below will advance you to additional pages in the survey. Please be sure of your responses before you select Next, as the survey
program will save your responses to the database and you will not be able to go back and change your answers. This brief survey should take you
approximately 10 minutes to complete. However, if you run short of time, the Save button will allow you to save your survey responses at any point
in the survey and return later to complete it. After you select Save, you will be provided with a link that will return you to the survey. Be sure to
either write down the link or cut and paste it into a Word document for your use later. At the end of the survey, you will be asked to select the
Submit button at the bottom of the screen in order to complete the survey and exit.

Instructions: Please rate each item by selecting the option that best reflects your response.

Background
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “At Great Length” and 1 being “Not At All,” please respond to following:
At Great
Length

I discussed the purpose of the training with the trainee
before the course to the following degree:

Before the training, I shared my expectations with the
trainee regarding how the trainee will use what was
learned in class on the job to the following degree:

Not At All

Relevance
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Completely” and 1 being “Not At All,” please respond to following:
Completely

The extent that the trainee was knowledgeable about the
course content prior to attending was:

The extent that the course prepared the trainee to apply
the knowledge and skills learned after returning to the job
was:

Not At All

Relevance (Continued)
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Strongly Agree” and 1 being “Strongly Disagree,” please respond to following:
Strongly
Agree

What the trainee learned during training was accurate and
consistent with job requirements.

The information covered in the course was valuable and
relevant to the trainee’s job.

Strongly
Disagree

Not
Applicable

Relevance (Continued)
I Don’t
Know

Yes

Yes, no, or I don’t know: Job aids or reference materials
were provided during training. [Not included in the online
survey: If “Yes,” proceed to the next item, # 8; if “No” or “I
Don’t Know,” proceed to Item # 10.]

Relevance (Continued)
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Strongly Agree” and 1 being “Strongly Disagree,” please respond to following:
Strongly
Agree

The job aids or reference materials provided to the trainee
during training have been valuable and relevant to the job.
If you have never seen the job aids or reference materials
used or if you responded to the statement with a “1”or “2,”
please explain:

Strongly
Disagree

Never Seen
Job Aids or
Reference
Materials
Used

Opportunity
Training sometimes focuses on preparing for events we hope never to experience, but for which we must be prepared, such as,
emergency evacuation procedures, use of deadly force, and first aid. If the training attended was for such events AND the trainee has
not had to apply the knowledge and skills in a real situation, then please select “Not Applicable.” Using the rating scale from 5 to 1,
with 5 being “Often” and 1 being “Never,” please respond to following:
Often

10.

11.

The trainee has received opportunities to apply the
knowledge and skills learned in training.
If you responded with a
“1”or “2,” please explain:

Never

Not
Applicable

Obstacles
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Never a Problem” and 1 being “Always a Problem,” please respond to following:
12.

Since taking the training, the following, if any, have prevented the trainee from applying the knowledge and skills on the job:
Never a
Problem

Equipment not available
Lack of funding or personnel
Different techniques followed
in the field/office
Different policies and
procedures required
Lack of management
support
Other:
13.

If you selected "Other," please specify:

Always a
Problem

Not
Applicable

Results
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Strongly Agree” and 1 being “Strongly Disagree,” please respond to following:
Strongly
Agree

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

The trainee seemed confident in his or her abilities to
apply the knowledge and skills learned successfully on the
job.

Strongly
Disagree

Not
Applicable

Comments:

The trainee was able to increase his or her mission or job
effectiveness on the job as a result of the training.
Please provide some details,
regardless of response:
The trainee promoted new systems, practices, or policies
and procedures as a result of the training (e.g., safety
procedures, human resource management, mission
implementation, etc.).
Please provide some details:

Support
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being “Almost Always True” and 1 being “Almost Never True,” please respond to following:
Almost
Always True

20.

21.

22.

I encouraged the trainee to use the new knowledge and/or
skills.

I acted as a coach or assigned a mentor to help the trainee
apply the skills.

I gave the trainee positive feedback when he or she
successfully used the skills learned in the training on the
job.

Almost
Never
True

Not
Applicable

Overall Opinion
Using the rating scale from 5 to 1, with 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest, please respond to following:
23.

24.

I am likely to recommend future ATF-sponsored courses to
my employees.

Overall, my level of satisfaction with the training is the
following:

25. Please state additional comments or recommendations you have regarding this course:

Again, we appreciate the time you take to provide us with this feedback that will be used to improve the course.
Thank you for your participation!
Office of Human Resources and Professional Development

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