Student and Supervisor Training Validation Surveys

Letter for Level III, Supervisor Survey
Thank you for sending your employee to the ATF Explosive Detection Canine
Handler training course. The Office of Human Resources and Professional Development
(HRPD) is committed to excellence and providing current and effective training. Your
feedback about the effectiveness of ATF training to prepare your employee to perform
his or her 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. Your responses and comments will be used to evaluate the training
and make updates on the course so that it continues to meet your staff's requirements.
Organization
This survey is organized in two parts. The first consists of general questions that are used
in all ATF training surveys so that we can compare responses to other courses offered by
the Bureau. The second part consists of course specific questions. Please take the time to
respond to both parts.
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
and you will not be able to go back and change your answers. 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.
If you run short of time, the Save button will allow you to save your survey responses at
any point and return later. 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 later use.
Instructions
Please rate each item on the following screens by selecting the option that best reflects
your response.
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.

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Part 1
Pre-training
Please respond as appropriate to the following:
My employee knew very little about the course content before attending the training.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree

Before the training, I discussed my expectations with the employee on how he or she will
use what is learned on the job.
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 No
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Overall Opinion
Overall, my level of satisfaction with my employee's training is the following:
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1 Not Satisfied
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Extremely Satisfied

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Relevance
Using the rating scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being "Strongly Disagree" and 5 being
"Strongly Agree," please respond to the following:
The information my employee received in the training was consistent with job
requirements.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree

The training my employee received was valuable to his or her job.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree

My employee has found the training handouts and/or reference materials to be useful on
the job.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree
Not Applicable
Do Not Know

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Handouts and Reference Materials
You disagreed that the training handouts and/or reference materials was useful to your
employee on the job, please explain:
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Obstacles
Using the rating scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being "Strongly Disagree" and 5 being
"Strongly Agree," please respond to the following:
Since taking the training, the following issues, if any, have prevented my employee from
applying the knowledge and skills on the job:

Lack of proper equipment
Lack of funding
Lack of personnel
Different techniques followed in the field/office
Different policies and procedures are required
Lack of management support
Lack of opportunity
Other

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Disagree
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If you selected "Lack of Opportunity" or "Other" in the above question, please explain:
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Results
Using the rating scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being "Strongly Disagree" and 5 being
"Strongly Agree," please respond to the following:
I feel confident in my employee's abilities to apply what was learned in the training on
the job, even if there has been no opportunity.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree

My employee was able to increase his or her effectiveness on the job as a result of the
training.
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5 Strongly Agree
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My employee has promoted new systems, practices, policies, or procedures as a result of
what he or she learned from the training (e.g., safety procedures, human resource
management, mission implementation, etc.).
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5 Strongly Agree
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Results
You indicated that your employee has promoted new systems, practices, policies, or
procedures as a result of what was learned from the training. Please describe.
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Reinforcement
Using the rating scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being "Strongly Disagree" and 5 being
"Strongly Agree," please respond to the following:
I frequently encourage my employee to use the new knowledge and skills.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree
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I frequently act as a coach and/or have assigned a mentor to help my employee apply the
new knowledge and skills.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree
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I often give the employee positive feedback when he or she successfully uses the
knowledge and skills learning in the training on the job.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree
Not Applicable

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Part 2
Use of ATF Explosives Detection Canine
Please respond as appropriate.
Is this your employee's first explosives detection canine from ATF?
 Yes
 No, this was a replacement canine
Your employee uses the ATF canine to conduct explosives searches:
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Daily
3 to 4 Times Per Week
1 to 2 Times Per Week
2 to 3 Times Per Month
Once A Month
Once Every 2 Months
Less than Once Every 2 Months

How frequently does your employee use the ATF explosives canine to conduct the
following searches.

Vehicle Searches
Warehouse Searches
Room Searches (Homes, Closets, Hotel
Rooms, Meeting Rooms)
Luggage and Box Searches
Mass Transit Searches (Planes, Trains,
Buses)
Storage Facility Searches
School Searches
Open Field Searches
Wooded Area Searches
Venue Searches (Sporting Events, Theaters,
Concerts)
Firearms and Shell Casing Searches
Post Blast Explosive Materials Searches
Other

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Very
Frequently

1
Not At
All
Or
Rarely
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If you indicated "Other" in the question above, please briefly describe and list how
frequently the searches are typically conducted.
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Canine Care
Please respond as appropriate.
The training effectively prepared my employee to provide the following canine care and
health related skills on the job:

Conduct basic canine health examinations
Identify possible canine diseases/illnesses
Identify possible canine parasites
Manage canine diet and weight
Provide canine ear and teeth care
Use appropriate canine restraint
techniques for examination, treatment, or
first aid
Apply first aid for injuries, wounds, and
bleeding
Apply first aid for fractures and breaks (to
include immobilizing the canine and
splinting)

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Disagree
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Agree
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My employee's canine has had illnesses or injuries that required:
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Minor First Aid
Major First Aid
Veterinarian Care for Illness
Surgery
Other Veterinarian Care
My employee's canine has not had any illnesses or injuries

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Canine Care
Please respond as appropriate.
You indicated you employee's canine has had illnesses or injuries that required some
level of first aid or veterinarian care. Please describe.
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Since your employee's training, how long has the canine been unavailable for duty due to
illness or injury?
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Less Than 1 Day
1 to 2 Days
3 to 7 Days
8 to 30 Days
If more than 30 Days, please specify? ____________________

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Canine Handling and Training
Please respond as appropriate.
The training effectively prepared my employee to use the ATF canine training
methodologies to provide the following handling related skills on the job.

Reinforce explosives odor imprinting
through maintenance training
Use positive reinforcement through
secondary and primary rewards for
desired behaviors
Effectively use leash control, commands,
and presentations to direct canines during
searches
Provide remedial training to correct
unwanted behaviors
Recognize canine behavior indicating
explosives finds

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5
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Disagree
Agree
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I provide my employee time to provide maintenance training for the ATF canine.
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My department and I support my employee's use of the ATF canine handling and training
methodology.
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Canine Handling and Training
Please respond as appropriate.
You indicated that you or your department does not support the ATF canine handling and
training methodology. Please explain.
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Explosives Investigation, Materials, Devices and Storage
Please respond as appropriate.
I am confident in my employee's abilities to use the ATF canine to conduct searches of:

Vehicles
Warehouses
Rooms
Luggage and Boxes
Mass Transit (Planes, Trains, Buses)
Storage Facilities
Schools
Open Fields
Venues (Sporting Events, Theaters,
Concerts)

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Disagree
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Agree
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I am confident in my employee's ability to modify his or her search to account for the
effects of airflow on explosives odors.
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1 Strongly Disagree
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5 Strongly Agree
Not Sure

The training successfully prepared my employee to safely store and handle explosives
materials as appropriate to his or her duties as an explosives detection canine handler.
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5 Strongly Agree
Not Sure

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Explosives Investigations, Materials, Devices and Storage
Please respond as appropriate.
The training effectively prepared my employee to recognize the following categories of
explosives:
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5
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Strongly Sure
Disagree
Agree
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Black and Smokeless Powders
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Substitute Smokeless Powders
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Quick Matches, Fuses, Primers & Blasting
Caps
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Pyrotechnic Mixtures (Flash Powders)
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Dynamite, TNT & Boosters
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Plastic Explosives (C-4, RDX), Det Cord
(PETN), & Binary Explosives
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Blasting Agents (AN, Water-gels, Slurries)
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Homemade Explosives (HME) Materials
The training effectively prepared my employee to recognize the following components of
an explosive device:

Power Sources
Conductors (Electrical Wiring)
Switches and Timers
Initiators (Detonators)
Explosives Materials

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Since receiving the ATF canine, the number of successful explosives related prosecutions
have increased by what percentage? (Use the slide bar to enter the percentage.)
Percentage ____________________
Since receiving the ATF explosives detection canine, the time required to conduct
searches for explosives, shell casings, or firearms has been reduced by what percentage?
(Use the slide bar to enter the percentage.)
Percentage ____________________
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Legal
Please respond as appropriate.
The training effectively prepared my employee to address the following in relation to his
or her responsibilities as a canine handler:

Pretrial preparation to provide testimony
Providing testimony regarding canine
training requirements and certification
Providing testimony on established search
methodologies
Identifying legal issues related to search
and seizures

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Strongly Sure
Disagree
Agree
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Overall Comments
Please provide any comment or recommendations you have regarding the course:
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Thank You
Thank you for taking the time to provide us feedback. The results of the survey will be
used as a means for improving future training. Please select the Submit button below to
complete the survey.

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