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Vale Don Kirkpatrick

Clark Quinn

Last week, Don Kirkpatrick passed away. The numbers have been documented (from a presentation with results from the ASTD Benchmarking Forum) as dropping in implementation from 94% doing level 1, 34% doing level 2, 13% doing level 3, and 3% doing level 4. And it’s instructive to see why on both sides. That’s not the idea!

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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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The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Lambda Solutions

Every time a user interacts with a learning module, forum, assessment, or communication tool, the LMS records, and stores that information. LMSs can track key indicators, such as forum participation and completed assessments, to calculate a risk score. The Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model. Level 1: Reaction.

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What is stopping companies from measuring learning: Skillsets, datasets, toolsets or mindsets?

Xyleme

Based on the discussion ignited in this LinkedIn forum, the primary obstacle is mindset. Yet, L&D professionals continue to herald formal evaluation - Kirkpatrick and Phillips - as industry standards, essentially disregarding new tools at their disposal. However, it''s not as simple as you''d think.

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ROI of continuous training: HR Directors’ unsolvable problem?

Coorpacademy

In the 50s, PHD and former president of the American Society for Training and Development Donald Kirkpatrick described an evaluation model of training efficiency in a 4 levels pyramid: The Four Levels of Training Evaluation. Jack Phillips then completed this model in the 90s in order to calculate ROI, with a 5th layer.