2018 Volume 14 Pages 47-66
This paper aimed to analyze self-assessment questionnaires conducted three months
after training sessions for renewal of effective period of long term care support
specialist certification to confirm whether the training had any effect on actual
practices and to measure the degree of effects. The research subjects were 151
practitioners who underwent training sessions implemented during FY2015 in A
Prefecture. The self-assessment on the subject, “Social Case Work（ lecture/seminar）”
was conducted three months after the training. The self-assessment values in preand
post-training（ three months later） were compared, and the changes in the values
between these periods were examined. In addition, text mining method was used to
extract frequently appearing words in the texts written in the free description space
in the assessment form and analyzed them using a co-occurrence network.
Based on the analysis of the self-assessment conducted three months after the
completion of training, the following three points are suggested:（1） the selfassessment
provided an opportunity for the participants to reflect on the contents of
training and their day-to-day practices;（2） the training had an effect on their actual
practices;（3） the self-assessment was associated with the evaluation through
participants’ self-reflection of the training contents and actual practices. These results
suggest that the self-assessment conducted three months after the training for
renewal of effective period of long term care support specialist certification showed
the effects of the training on the participants’ actual practices in the post-training
period.
