Evaluation the Effectiveness of Crisis Management Workshop Training Kerman province-2009

Background Educational managers have to evaluate the effectiveness of crisis management trainings to recognize the weakness and strength points of the plans. According to Kirkpatrick pattern, this paper aims to study the effectiveness of crisis management workshop training regarding the educational goals achievement based on awareness, knowledge, and manager's satisfaction in unexpected disasters center in Kerman province.MethodsIn this applied and evaluation research, about 134 of managers in unexpected disasters center were selected in 7 townships of Kerman by using simple sampling randomly, questionnaire, frequency, percent, mean, T test statistics in 2009.Findings About 58.8 percent of managers were satisfied with awareness of the available potentials for crisis planning. About 54.9 percent were firmly believed the necessity of crisis management learning. Also about 54.1 percent were pleased with the quality of presentations.Conclusion The result shows that the course was effective and useful regarding the knowledge and awareness increasing of crisis management. There was a meaningful difference in posttest and pretest mean (P<0.05). In participant's view, the course and the quality of training workshop were highly desirable.