Essential IT Skills Programme

Touch typing induction

Reporting and evaluation

6-12th October 2009

Mike McAtominey

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Content of this session

• Phase one

• Objectives

• Why evaluation is important and what will happen if

we don’t evaluate

• Reports available to centres

• Reports and information required from centres

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Phase one

• High demand

• Good clinical/admin split

• Most got to bronze

• Training managers, managers and candidates

positive

• Little correlation between training and improvement

in speed and accuracy

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Objectives

• To assess if there is a demand for touch typing

training

• To assess if touch typing improves productivity

• To assess if speed/accuracy of work is improved

• To demonstrate if ROI occurs as a result of touch

typing training

• To be able to provide recommendations for the

future to the EITS Board

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Why evaluate?

• Enable us to draw evidence based conclusions

• Basis for proposal for touch typing provision post

pilot

• No information/poor quality information = no basis

to propose post pilot provision

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Reports available to centres

• Standard LMS/BQS reports

• Details available in the BCS EITS ops manual

• Regular communications and updates from the

touch typing pilot team

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Reports required from centres

• Fortnightly returns via NHS CFH website

• Site pilot candidate tracking spreadsheet User ID and Skill Card ID

Assessment score

Best BQS score

Post pilot assessment score

• Post pilot surveys Centre survey

Candidate survey

Candidate line manager survey

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Thank you – any questions?