Evaluate your tutor training program
Evaluating your tutor training program is easy. There are a variety of ways that you can approach this task but all of these ways involve gathering information from the tutors involved in your program to find out how effective the program was in meeting their needs. If you already knew your tutors' needs then you could organise the evaluation questions that you ask around these areas of need. If you are unsure as to whether your program has met tutors' needs then you could organise your evaluation questions in such a way as to invite them to let you know the ways in which your program did and didn't meet their needs. These two approaches roughly parallel the ideas of structured and unstructured evaluation research. In the first case the questions that you ask are determined by your expectations of what was relevant for the tutors. That's the sense in which that process is structured. In the other scenario, your invitations to tutors to give you feedback do not probe or prompt them to comment on any particular topic. In that sense the latter approach is unstructured.
At the end of your tutor training day, have some materials to hand out to tutors that seek feedback from them about the usefulness of the program. You can also ask them about ways in which future programs might be tailored to better address their needs. In this way you both evaluate the present program and give yourself an opportunity to design a better program next time.
