**2.4 Data collection and analysis**

An electronic self-designed questionnaire was used to collect data from the learner nurses. The literature and criterion of CHE guided the development of the questionnaire, which was pilot tested on five learner nurses who did not form part of the study in the same study setting. An english-written electronic questionnaire was chosen because of its ability to increase the rate of responses and the quality of responses. Learners took 10 to 20 minutes to complete the electronic questionnaire. Descriptive statistics on SPSS version 27 were used to analyze the perceptions of learner nurses about the nursing training program, and which statistician took a month to return the analysis results. Summary statistics of descriptive statistics was the perfect analysis method to compare the mean regarding perceptions of learner nurses on the selected criterion for program evaluation as listed by CHE.
