Impact measurement – time to measure what matters
How are the majority of L&D initiatives evaluated? This is a burning question for learning…
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How would one judge the extent to which any training programme is likely *in principle* to be effective. What would you look for? Does anyone know of any existing frameworks (post-Kirkpatrick)?
Editor’s note: This tweet from Rob Briner, Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management, prompted many interesting and useful responses. The responses are worth a look if you are interested in measuring the success of a training programme.
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One of the Biggest Lies in Learning Evaluation — Asking Learners about Level 3 and 4.
Editor’s note: Don’t ask employees to provide feedback on behaviour change and business impact (Kirkpatrick levels three and four), says Will Thalheimer. Why? Because feedback is subjective and therefore unreliable . . .
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The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’
Editor’s note: This critique of learning assessment might chime with the critics of learning outcomes. In higher education, the focus on learning outcomes seems mainly to be feeding the assessment industry and university bureaucracy.
The business of learning evaluation – curated #chat2lrn tweets
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on #learning evaluation. [View the…