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. Kirkpatrick is now saying that we need to start with Level 4.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Hardly ever do they use “Level 3: Behavior,” and they never use “Level 4: Results.” 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. But it wasn’t.

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Wizcabin

JANUARY 26, 2020

One can define the custom eLearning ROI as the ratio of your net income and cost of investment. The purpose of custom eLearning ROI is to measure performance and evaluate the efficiency of training investment. Well, we can do that through the expansion of Kirkpatrick’s model of analyzing and evaluating the results of training.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As he settled into his new job, Wiedecker read Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick’s book, “Training on Trial,” which inspired him to implement the Kirkpatrick training evaluation model at the MTA. The four levels of training evaluation Don Kirkpatrick put forth first in the 1950s are well known to learning leaders.

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Obsidian Learning

MAY 10, 2016

New post Evaluating Training – Capturing the Benefits Aspect of ROI on Obsidian Learning. Training evaluation is necessary and, in many ways, critical to the success of a business. Return on investment (ROI) is a quantification of the relation between the benefits of a program and its costs [benefit-cost ratio (BCR)].

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Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

You are likely familiar with Kirkpatrick’s model 1 of the 4 levels of evaluation: The higher you go up the levels, the more time and resources required, but the better the information you obtain. Level 3: Behavior. At Level 3, we measure the application and implementation of learning – changed behaviors on the job.

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Obsidian Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The Kirkpatrick four levels of training evaluation. While later stages of evaluation measure more obvious aspects of quality—such as the impact of the training on the learner—it’s important not to overlook the less obvious factors, such as instructional design or the use of technology. Evaluation: The Four Levels.

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