All evaluation materials for trainers and trainees should be accessed through the California Child Welfare Training (CACWT) system website
(link is external)
. Detailed instructions for trainers on how to administer these evaluations are located in the Evaluation Guide, which can be found in the trainer materials section in CACWT.
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) and the California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC), in collaboration with California’s four Regional Training Academies (RTAs) and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (LA DCFS), maintain the process of evaluating the Statewide Core Curricula for Child Welfare Supervisors. The curriculum series employs a pre- and post-evaluation evaluation design. The entire pre-evaluation is administered before training begins on Day 1, while post-evaluations are administered in increments on Days 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10, based on the training content of the respective two prior training days. The evaluation design also includes a Demographic Survey administered on Day 1 and the Statewide Satisfaction Survey administered on Days 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10.
The purpose of the evaluations is multidimensional and designed to:
provide evaluative feedback regarding the curriculum design and its effectiveness to
help inform workforce development needs,
understand how to best to support trainee learning, and
foster a deeper level of learning for future trainees;
explore knowledge acquisition at the aggregate level; and
establish a standard method of evaluating training effectiveness in response to federal requirements in the Program Improvement Plan (PIP) for California.
A high level of statewide standardization and consistency is required – with fidelity both to the curriculum and to delivery standards – to collect reliable data to serve the purposes described above. Consequently, trainers must follow the curriculum as it is written and include all training activities.