General comments | No. | % | Specific content | No. | % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NEG: Organization | 33 | 5.6 | Tools | 31 | 5.2 |
NEG: Miscellaneous | 22 | 2.7 | Activities | 28 | 4.7 |
NEG: Facilitation | 16 | 1.3 | Role Plays | 21 | 3.5 |
Time Too Long | 21 | 3.5 | Power-Point | 15 | 2.5 |
Time Too Brief | 7 | 1.2 | Skills-Build | 14 | 2.4 |
Lunch Too Long | 3 | 0.5 | Topic/Theme | 14 | 2.4 |
CC: Need More Time | 18 | 3.0 | Discussion | 11 | 1.9 |
CC: Need Guiding | 8 | 1.3 | Examples | 6 | 1.0 |
CC: Need More Activity | 4 | 0.7 | Handouts | 6 | 1.0 |
CC: More Interactive | 3 | 0.5 | Statistics | 3 | 0.5 |
Arrangements (Org) | 16 | 2.7 | Video Clip | 3 | 0.5 |
Not my job/Unrelated | 8 | 1.3 | Ice Breaker | 3 | 0.5 |
Review or Refresher | 6 | 1.0 | Inverts Q: General | 136 | 22.9 |
New at Job / Position | 4 | 0.7 | Inverts Q: "All okay" | 79 | 13.3 |
Inverts Q: Affective | 48 | 8.1 | |||
Inverts Q: Facilitator | 7 | 1.2 | |||
TOTAL | 169 | 28.5% | TOTAL | 425 | 71.5% |
N/A; blank; DK | 692 | 424 + 170 + 692 = | 1,286 |
Comments coded by theme and topic, whereas the Word Cloud produced proportional image of 50 common terms. CODES: NEG=no corrective suggestions; Arrangements=outside trainer control, e.g., no coffee; CC (critical comments) what aspect needs more or needs less; Specific Content=ineffective, sometimes with a suggestion; Inverts Question with approval to affective-supportive (e.g., “all was beneficial”). Infrequent terms were merged. Owing to slight variation in aggregations, few proportions in appendix might not visually match proportions in Word Clouds. Capitalized terms at top in left column show those that were used in a critical or negative comment.