COMPARING CHOICE AND QUESTIONNAIRE MEASURES OF THE ACCEPTABILITY OF ASTAFF TRAINING PROCEDURE

We compared questionnaire and choice measures of acceptability while e valuating effects of staff familiarity versus unfamiliarity with the s ystem used to monitor performance during a training program. Staff mem bers rated both monitoring formats equally favorably on the questionna ire, whereas when given a choice, they frequently chose the familiar f ormat and never chose the unfamiliar format. These results suggest tha t traditional questionnaire evaluations may not be sufficiently sensit ive measures of acceptability relative to choice measures.