1. Goal of the questionnaire:
to find out on what topics governors would like to professionalize themselves
to find out preferences of governors on six elements of the to be designed intervention.
Method: placing a digital questionnaire on the website of SPO for governors
Justification of the questionnaire:
Three levels of development according to Smith & Ragan: Knowledge/skills, behavior and Belief. First
we wanted to include the three dimensions in each topic, but this resulted in a huge table (see
appendix A). We did not want that. So we chose the topics to focus on just the topics, because we
expect a varied target group (more and less experienced governors). So the intervention should
provide all three levels of mastery. Another argument for our idea to investigate the relevance of the
topics, is that content relevance is positively related to transfer of an intervention (appendix B). And
since governors all had education in compliance, there is no need to cover the entire content. It is
quite obvious, that learners will probably be more motivated to participate if they value the content
as relevant. This is important, since governors are not obliged to follow the course. Therefore our
first goal of the questionnaire and the interviews is to find out what parts of the content are most
relevant.
Secondly, we also would like to find out something about the preferences of learners concerning the
intervention. Undeniably there are numerous aspects that we could try to find out related to learner
preferences. But we had to make a selection, because we wanted to present a short questionnaire, in
order to make the list attractive and hopefully get more response. So we asked ourselves: What do
we really want to know? We based this on a few ideas for interventions that we had made up by that
time, and had discussed with our principals. Roughly we doubted about live meetings or e-learning,
and about the role of the trainer. This resulted in six questions.

2. Appendix A: rows=topics of compliance gathered from literature and interview with Director of the
compliance committee, columns=cognitive levels of attitude learning (from Smith & Ragan)
Topics Kennis en Praktische Reflectie/attitude
Vaardigheden toepassing
wet- en regelgeving
controle/monitoring
Functionele en eerlijke
verslaglegging
Belangenconflicten van bestuurders
Relatie met investeerders
Maatschappelijk verantwoord
beleggen
Risico’s van uitbesteding
IT-risico’s
Fraude
Ander topic, nl.

3. Appendix B: intervention design variables – transfer relation (ref.)