Coaching Kirkpatrick Metrics Program 
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.
Dashe & Thomson
JANUARY 20, 2012
Even though many Learning and Development organizations find it a challenge to prove training’s effect beyond how learners react to the training and whether they have learned the training content, senior management and business stakeholders are more and more interested in metrics that show the impact on the organization.
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CLO Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2023
What L&D leaders want to demonstrate is that their programs, courses and other L&D interventions are making a difference in work quality and quantity in the workforce — and that their improvement makes a difference in bottom-line metrics for the company. This can’t be a metric you choose just because it’s easy to count.
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’. The end is the beginning – An incisive comment: ‘For decades, practitioners have attempted to apply the four levels after a program has been developed and delivered. You can download the paper here.
Unboxed
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Organizations need to provide an upskilling training program, create opportunities for continuous learning, and enable employees to share and master new skills. To remain competitive, employers, managers, coaches, and teams all need to cultivate continuous learning cultures across the organization.
Docebo
DECEMBER 8, 2015
But now, organizations are coming to terms with the fact that people learn more of what they need to be effective at their job through informal, on-the-job and coaching channels than they do through more formal means. Basic questions to help gauge formal learning: How many people participated in the program?
Axonify
AUGUST 30, 2018
We can all recite the four levels of the Kirkpatrick Model (reaction, learning, behavior, results), but we still can’t prove the impact of training on business results. Training must expand the definition of “learning data” to include an array of metrics that measure the full spectrum of performance changes over time.
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