What the scientific evaluator of management training courses wishes to know of the courses and their application to work are all in the consciousness of the course-participating manager. What the evaluator has to do is to sift from the manager's recorded accounts of his or her learning and post-course experiences. This is protocol analysis method as an alternative to the currently prevalent positivist methods of evaluation.
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