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Training evaluation: Ask the right questions

Ed App

A training evaluation , like any assessment, is only as good as the data it captures. So, what are the most effective questions to ask when evaluating training programs ? How do you truly evaluate training effectiveness ? Kirkpatrick has been writing about evaluating training programs for close to 60 years.

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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Evaluation is notoriously under done in the corporate sector. I’m not suggesting that evaluation is never done. However, a secondary concern I have with evaluation goes beyond the question of quantity: it’s a matter of quality. Evaluation by design. And who can blame us? Pseudo echo.

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ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design

The eLearning Coach

When you create surveys for instructional design, such as for an audience analysis or evaluation, what process do you use? Caroline is a forms specialist and the author of Surveys That Work and co-author of Forms that Work, and of User Interface Design and Evaluation. She has an MA in Mathematics and an MBA and Diploma in Statistics.

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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Evaluation is notoriously under done in the corporate sector. I’m not suggesting that evaluation is never done. However, a secondary concern I have with evaluation goes beyond the question of quantity: it’s a matter of quality. Evaluation by design. And who can blame us? Pseudo echo.

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The Learning Styles Zombie

Clark Quinn

They did a meta-analysis of the research out there, and concluded this with statistical rigor. That is, some studies showed positive effects, and some showed negative, but across the body of studies suitably rigorous to be worth evaluating, there was no evidence that trying to adapt learning to learner characteristics had a definitive impact.

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How intersectionality and immersive learning help companies address gender inequity in the workplace

CLO Magazine

When we again disaggregate these statistics, 67 percent of Latina and Asian women agree, 63 percent of white women agree and only 49 percent of Black women agree. For performance evaluation, 69 percent of all men and 68 percent of all women agreed that “there is a clear and defined system for evaluating my performance at work.”

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Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

The 2015 study has 777 respondents which is typically a good size sample from a statistical standpoint but I would question the reliability of this data given that it’s not a random sample. I would expect the margin of error to be high.