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COSTA, Carla Barroso da  e  DO VALE, Sônia Maria Leite Ribeiro. Evaluating the effects of training in methodology upon the rural professional education. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. [online]. 2003, vol.3, n.2, pp. 153-183. ISSN 1984-6657.

The goals of this study were to investigate the effects of methodological training for instructors at the Brazilian National Rural Learning System (SENAR) and analyze the relationships between background variables (individual characteristics, characteristics of the training in methodology, the job context, the work carried out and didactics) and criterion variables (development of a teaching plan and the instructor's methodological performance). The instructors did self-evaluations, and the supervisors evaluated others. The sample consisted of 234 instructors who received methodological training, and 50 supervisors. The study was conducted at 14 Administrative Regions of SENAR. The data were submitted to qualitative analysis, factor analysis and standard multiple regression. The results showed didactics to be a strong predictor of methodological performance, in the supervisors' view. For the instructors, the characteristics of the training, the work carried out and the job context proved to be significant for methodological performance. As for the variable 'development of a teaching plan', years of schooling and the number of methodological training courses taken by the instructors were taken as predictor variables.

Palavras-chave : training evaluation; transfer of learning; rural professional education.

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