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The PDEA Academy has been established, pursuant to an exclusive provision under RA 9165, on the premise that well-trained human resources constitute a potent force in an organization's product and/or service delivery, and that the more we sweat in training, the less we bleed in battle. The lawmakers then, just like President Duterte now, saw the campaign against illegal drugs as a war. Needless to say, this worthwhile fight requires the fighters to be talented, knowlegeable and skilled. Their incapability or incompetence could mean poor delivery or failure in the delivery of drug law enforcement services, resulting in successful transshipment of illegal drugs, drug trafficker on the loose, drug case dismissal, life loss due to drug overdose, or life taken by a drug offender, just to name a few. Therefore, the PDEA Academy must see to it that the trainings it conduct truly capacitates toward quality, efficient and timely delivery of drug law enforcement services to the public. Training is learning to change the performance of people doing jobs. Knowing whose performance and which aspect of performance need to be changed; if such can be changed only thru training; what information then will be useful or applicable for the target learner; that the learner will be able to use or apply the leaning; that the learning is indeed being used or applied; that the application has improved performance; and how to ensure all these, is through training evaluation. Training evaluation is laid down by the literature in four components, namely, Level 1 - Reaction. Level 2 - Learning, Level 3 - Behavior and Level 4 - Results. Unfortunately, the existing PDEA Training Evaluation Systems is still at Level 1 - evaluating only the reaction of the trainees or participants - evaluating only how the Subject Matter Expert (SME) or instructor taught and how the training was managed, merely from the point of view of the trainee or participant. Hence, this is just a limited evaluation, since if the PDEA wants evaluation results to be holistically useful inputs in determining training effectiveness and efficiency, changes in knowledge, skills and attitude must be gauged, too, which eventually enables the institution to gauge the change impact of the training at the organizational level. Thus, through this Reentry Project, the scholar had proposed to enhance the existing PDEA Training Evaluation System, by giving due importance to gauging training needs and/or effectiveness in the fields, which will ensure that resources are efficiently utilized through the conduct of trainings that are truly pragmatic and/or that better-capacitate personnel, toward excellent delivery of the PDEA's Major Final Output (MFO): Dangerous Drugs Supply Reduction and Suppression Services. Aforesaid Reentry Project: "Enhancement of the Training Evaluation System in the PDEA" has been implemented, basically through the development of a holistic PDEA Training Evaluation System. The PDEA Holistic Training Evaluation System, which comprises Concept, Procedural Guidelines, Flowcharts and Instrument, is the conduct of training evaluation in three, all-inclusive, interconnected components, namely, Pre-training Evaluation, Training Proper Evaluation and Post Training Evaluation. Consequently, evaluation of a PDEA training will no longer be limited to Course Evaluation and Trainer Evaluation, but will extend from Training Needs Assessment (TNA) to deployment or reentry post-training evaluation; and that it will not only be the trainees or participants who will evaluate, nut also the supervisors and managers, the trainers, and recipient units or offices of the graduates. Through this holistic enhancement, the current Training Evaluation System in the PDEA will have Pre-training Evaluation, where the conduct of training will be in accordance with training needs; and will be levelled up to Level 2 (Learning) evaluation, instead of just Level 1 (Reaction) evaluation, in the Training Proper Evaluation, and to Level 3 (Behavior) and Level 4 (Results) evaluations in the Post Training Evaluation. Moreover, a PDEA Memorandum Circular had been issued, adopting the PDEA Holistic Evaluation System and prescribing support endeavors to the Enhancement of the Training Evaluation System in the PDEA. Additionally, the agency policy had been issued to ensure that PDEA training evaluation is a planned endeavor, a continuing process, a cooperative undertaking, and makes use of methods and procedures that are valid and reliable. |