Perception of Trainees on the Model Training Course: A Post Training Assessment

Abstract

Considering the growing importance of enclosure culture in inland fisheries sector in India, Ministry of Agricultureand Farmers’ Welfare, Govt. of India sponsored a Model Training Course (MTC) for the officers working in thefisheries sector with an intent to build their capacity which would eventually trickle down to the end users oftechnology. The present study was undertaken to measure both pre-training and post-training percepti on of thetwenty-six officers across eleven states of the country about the training programme on enclosure culture conductedby the ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute from 23rd to 29th August 2017. A pre-training need assessmentwith the help of priority matrix revealed highest training need for cage culture in reservoir, feedi ng and diseasemanagement followed by water quality and species selection in cage culture. Post training assessment of overall qualityof the training programme showed that 50 per cent of the participants rated the training programme as excellentwhile, 34.62 per cent perceived it as very good and 15.38 per cent as good. All the participants perceived the trainingprogramme to be helpful to improve their job performances and 60 per cent of them expressed willingn ess toconduct farmers’ training on the same topic in future. 53.84 per cent stated that their expectations were fulfilled “to agreat extent” and for rest of the trainees it was “to some extent”. Further, significant positive association was foundbetween the normalized scores of training need and fulfilment of expectation of the trainees with the help ofcorrelation coefficient at 5 per cent level of significance (r=0.632, P=0.000). Significant correlation coefficient was alsofound 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. Thefindings of this study could be useful for conducting and improving similar type of model training courses in future