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訓練成效評估 101 Evaluating the Training Effectiveness of the Pest Control and Pesticide Safety Course Offered by the Farmer ’ s Academy in Taiwan Tzu-Fen Chen 1* , Yu-Hsia Ho 1 , Mei-Hui Wang 1 , Miao-Fan Chen 1 Abstract Chen, T. F., Ho, Y. H., Wang, M. H., and Chen, M. F. 2018. Evaluating the training effectiveness of the pest control and pesticide safety course offered by the Farmer’s Academy in Taiwan. Taiwan Pestic. Sci. 4: 83-102. This study investigated the training effectiveness of the pest control and pesticide safety application course offered by the Farmers’ Academy. Two questionnaires based on Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model were designed to study the training effectiveness. The first questionnaire evaluated “learning level” and was administered to participants before and after they had completed the training course. This evaluation revealed that participants significantly increased their awareness of “Integrated Pest Management”, “Identifying pesticide toxicity and pesticide labels”, “Protective equipment for safety handling pesticides”, and “Integrated Crop Management” after completing the course. The second questionnaire evaluated the “behavior level” and “result level” of Kirkpatrick’s four-level model. Specifically, this second questionnaire tracked the awareness and farm management effectiveness of trainees 1~3 years after they had completed the training course. We received 142 valid responses (a recovery rate of 73%) for this questionnaire, and this data showed that “Ability to identify counterfeit pesticide products and pesticide labels’’, “Knowledge of Pesticide Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) and Pre-harvest Interval (PHI)’’, and “Knowledge of personal protective equipment for handling pesticides’’ were Accepted: September 6, 2018. * Corresponding author, E-mail: feny3721@tactri.gov.tw 1 Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Taichung