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Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation: A Critique

The Performance Improvement Blog

At the end of Dan McCarthy’s blog post , “How to Evaluate a Training Program”, in which he explains his pre-post, survey approach to applying the Kirkpatrick four levels of training evaluation , he asks: Has anyone used a system like this, or something better? Third , it shouldn’t be a decision to evaluate or not to evaluate.

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The Learning Alliance and the Four Levels of Training Evaluation

The Performance Improvement Blog

In response to my blog post titled, “Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation: A Critique” , Wendy Kirkpatrick wrote a comment directing me to a white paper that she co-authored with Jim Kirkpatrick, "The Kirkpatrick Four Levels: A Fresh Look After 50 Years 1959 - 2009."

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Learning to Learn from Evaluation of Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Kirkpatricks have four levels, the Phillips have ROI, and Brinkerhoff has the Success Case Method. Each approach to evaluation of training has something to contribute to assessing the impact of formal training on employee learning. However, the value of evaluation is not in the data.

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Best practices on measuring the impact of organizational learning

Matrix

The Kirkpatrick model still stands as a beacon in this sea of continuous renewal but there is the poignant need for a different approach to measuring everything from engagement to impact of training programs. Read more: How many types of mentoring are there? Learning evaluation needs to be simpler.

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

Learning books (4). Learning technology books (2). Evaluation & Feedback books (4). Learning & business strategy books (4). Learning and Development Culture books (5). The crisply written Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice covers all the fundamentals. Evaluation & Feedback books.

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Free learning & development webinars for March 2017

Limestone Learning

Ironically, evaluating training value is often an afterthought, considered only after training is complete. Ironically, evaluating training value is often an afterthought, considered only after training is complete. You’ll learn how to create and maintain a world-class mentoring program that produces strategic results.

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