Effectiveness Assessment of Public Integrity Trainings

1st Part – The Lack of Validation and its Importance

Abstract

This article is the first part of a paper that presents the results of an effectiveness assessment survey of public integrity trainings that were organized for Hungarian civil servants in 2013 and 2014. The aim of the survey was to move beyond the usual satisfaction surveys and give an impartial validation for the training method. According to our results the trainings produced significant learning impact both on the knowledge and attitude level in the desired direction. Although the global averages were positive, the results also showed that some participants did not change their opinions and some changed in the opposite direction. Our research identified multiple factors that played a role in this unexpected impact – trainers’ impact being one of those. In this first part, we present the results of the analysis of global averages. In the second part of our paper, which will be published in the next issue of this journal, we discuss the results of the analysis carried out at the level of individual participants and we present proposals for further research that could support training designers’ and providers’ learning by offering a more detailed picture of the diverse learning trajectories of different participants and the performance of the trainers.