Evaluation System of AOTS Training Activities
Since its foundation in 1959, the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) has been conducting training programs for engineers/technicians and managers from developing countries, and the number of such training programs has steadily increased. Under the recent moves toward structural reform, however, AOTS now has to review the training projects for greater effectiveness and efficiency in implementation. Thus, AOTS established the AOTS Training Project Evaluation System Committee consisting of outside experts in fiscal 1999, and conducted studies over three years to construct a new evaluation system.
The new evaluation system, which enables micro-, mezzo-, and macro-level evaluations with six evaluation items and 20 evaluation indicators, aims to improve the AOTS training courses and its projects as a whole, and evaluate each project's contribution to AOTS's mission. The main elements of this system are an AOTS Objectives System Chart, an Evaluation Guideline, an Evaluation Conceptual Diagram, and a Survey Questionnaire.
AOTS is making concerted efforts to further improve the quality of its training projects with the feedback from the evaluation system and to fulfill its accountability through public disclosure of the evaluation results.
Training effectiveness, human resource development, evaluation system, public-interest corporation, developing countries
