Donald Kirkpatrick coined this model in 1975 and it could most probably be outdated. Another thing he says is if you don't get past level 2, you aren't using Kirkpatrick. Four Level Evaluation Model behavior Donald Kirkpatrick reaction classroom training learning results elearningHe talks about the four levels of evaluation of a course: Level1: Reaction- Observe and record learner reaction to a training. Level2: Learning- The extent to which learners change attitudes, increase knowledge, and/or increase skills. Some additional links. This table is also quite useful. MORE >>

While acknowledging that Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation had proved valuable over more than thirty years in helping to measure instructor-led, content-based 'training' interventions, Sloman felt that a new approach was necessary to support a more self-directed, work-based 'learning' process. It's worth checking first of all whether Kirkpatrick's model is still useful for evaluating the top-down stuff. ROI was mentioned frequently in the session in the context of Kirkpatrick's model, an association which I don't understand. Let's start with level 1. think it does. MORE >>

Since 1959, over 50 years ago, learning professionals en masse and across the planet have employed the Kirkpatrick Model as the sole basis of evaluation. That’s when Kirkpatrick’s levels first came out, and they’ve survived longer than almost any other business in existence.  Charles Jennings, former CLO of Thomson Reuters and current partner with Internet Time Alliance and Duntroon Associates, further suggested, “The Kirkpatrick model is based on the assumption learning occurs through events. social learning evaluation formal informal kirkpatrick social MORE >>

Acres of screen and print pages have been given over to the relevance or otherwise of Kirkpatrick's model of evaluation. Today a colleague received a request to make sure the course he was working on featured Kirkpatrick analysis. The client wanted a survey at the end of the course that addressed all four levels of Kirkpatrick in one go: what do you think of this training course? Well, we can do a "happy sheet" and intra/post course testing,' was the group reply, in an attempt to crudely match the good doctor's schema. But no! have you learnt what you need to know? MORE >>

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Kirkpatrick Revisited by Barbara on April 18, 2011 in Instructional Design After I finished my post a few weeks ago on Reevaluating Evaluation , I found out that Donald Kirkpatrick , the granddaddy of the Four Levels of Evaluation, was taking a farewell tour before his retirement and would be presenting a workshop at the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) in Minneapolis. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong. MORE >>