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.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Evalution Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning 160

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. Kirkpatrick calls this Return on Expectations, or ROE. coaches, mentors, peers, software programs, etc.) According to Donald L. Critical behaviors.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 31, 2009

In November 1959, Donald Kirkpatrick published a series of seminal articles on training evaluation in the ‘Journal of the ASTD’. Reinforcement and coaching by such individuals directly correlates to improved performance and positive outcomes. As designers of learning, have we applied the model with Don’s intent?

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Kirkpatrick Metrics eLearning Consultant Evalution 174

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. Ive been looking for some ammo t. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 140

Learning Visions

MAY 7, 2014

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. Forgive any typos or incoherencies.

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Evalution Effectiveness Case Study Kirkpatrick 157

Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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. ATD has been producing this annual report for years (originally as the ASTD). The most widely used measures for ‘learning’ are based on activity, not on outcomes.

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