Dashe & Thomson
APRIL 17, 2011
I have included Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation in every proposal I have ever written, and I wanted to hear from Kirkpatrick himself regarding his take on the current state of evaluation and whether his four levels are still viable. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.
Origin Learning
MAY 20, 2014
Dr. Donald Kirkpatrick is one of those few people that have achieved eternity by virtue of their contribution. A professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin and the creator of the Kirkpatrick Four-level Evaluation Model , Dr. Kirkpatrick passed away on May 9, 2014 at the age of 90. Image Credit – kirkpatrickpartners.com.
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Clark Quinn
MAY 28, 2014
Last week, Don Kirkpatrick passed away. He felt that you worked backward from the change you needed, to determine whether the workplace performance was changing, as then to see if that could be attributed to the training, and ultimately to the learner. And it’s instructive to see why on both sides. That’s not the idea!
Dashe & Thomson
MARCH 15, 2011
Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. But it wasn’t. She enhanced it.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 31, 2009
In the fifty years since, his thoughts (Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results) have gone on to evolve into the legendary Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Model and become the basis on which learning & development departments can show the value of training to the business. You can download the paper here.
Dashe & Thomson
JANUARY 20, 2012
Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. Reaction: To what degree did the learners react favorably to the training experience? Kirkpatrick calls this Return on Expectations, or ROE.
Upside Learning
MAY 2, 2013
Proving the effectiveness of training and showing ROI is no walk in the park and still keeps L&D up at night. Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model has long been the holy grail of training effectiveness measurement to businesses. The key message from his talk was to Stop Evaluating Training the way we currently tend to.
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