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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

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.

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How to Evaluate Learning: The Kirkpatrick Model for the 21st Century

Dashe & Thomson

Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. Kirkpatrick calls this Return on Expectations, or ROE. coaches, mentors, peers, software programs, etc.) According to Donald L.

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50 Years of the Kirkpatrick Model

Upside Learning

In November 1959, Donald Kirkpatrick published a series of seminal articles on training evaluation in the ‘Journal of the ASTD’. They go on to add it’s important to distinguish a plan to build effective training & the evaluation methodology from the actual collection of data. You can download the paper here.

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Become a Strategic Partner Through Effective Training Evaluation #ASTD2014 @Jim_Kirkpatrick

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from a concurrent session (W104) at the ASTD International Conference & Expo, this week in Washington, D.C. James Kirkpatrick, Senior Consultant Kirkpatrick Partners Sometimes we have to do the politically incorrect thing. See the Brinkerhoff Study on the effectiveness of training. (I''m

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. We measure how many people have attended a class or completed an eLearning module, or read a document or engaged in a job swap or in a coaching relationship.

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Brain and Memory with Arthur Kohn #astdtk13

Learning Visions

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference kicking off today January 29, 2013 in San Jose, California. Primacy effect: the word that come first we remembered the most - it was the most rehearsed. Your training will be more effective if you are unembarrassed about including emotion. Apologies for typos and incoherence.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Don Kirkpatrick proposed a model for measuring the outcomes of training. The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports that companies spend $1,067 per employee (2.7% Studies) Most corporate training is an example of the “Streetlight Effect.”.