E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 16, 2025

In practice this means going beyond Levels 1 and 2 of Kirkpatrick to include the application of learning and its impact on the business. I’m not suggesting we shy away from collaborating on other activities that benefit the business.

Consulting

Limestone Learning

JULY 30, 2025

PT: Integrating AI with the Kirkpatrick Four Levels: Revolutionizing Evaluation Join Vanessa Alzate, President and CEO of Kirkpatrick Partners, and Myra Roldan, Founder and CEO of UnDesto AI, for an insightful webinar where you’ll explore the fusion of AI and the Kirkpatrick Model to enhance training evaluations.

Free

Clarity Consultants

JULY 3, 2025

This stage is more than just uploading a module to a Learning Management System (LMS); it requires thoughtful planning to ensure learners can easily access, engage with, and benefit from the training. Communication and Engagement Strategies Clear internal communication ensures that learners understand the purpose and benefits of the training.

Custom eLearning Development

Arlo Training & Events Software

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Kirkpatrick Model The Kirkpatrick Model , developed by Donald Kirkpatrick in the 1950s, is a widely recognized framework for evaluating the effectiveness of training programs. How the Kirkpatrick Model Works Level 1: Reaction This level measures participants’ immediate responses to the training.

Evalution

BrainCert

MAY 29, 2025

Kirkpatrick’s Model of Evaluation Focuses on measuring the effectiveness of your training program on 4 levels: Reaction – How did learners feel about the training? Learning – What did they learn? Host Live Training, Webinars, or Virtual Classrooms Want to add blended learning to your portfolio? Why BrainCert?

Instructional Design

Paradiso Solutions

APRIL 22, 2025

Book a Demo Step 2 Use the Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation One of the most widely used frameworks for evaluating training effectiveness is the Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation , which breaks down the assessment process into four levels: Reaction : This level measures how participants react to the training.

Assessment

Infopro Learning

MAY 15, 2020

Effective training programs can provide some pretty valuable benefits including increased employee retention, boosted morale, improved productivity and a rise in profits. A common model for training evaluation is the Kirkpatrick Model. It also can be a useful tool when you are trying to determine the ROI of a training program.

Analytics

Lambda Solutions

MAY 1, 2015

Additionally, having the ability to measure improvements in job performance will provide valuable data for measuring cost-benefits to the organization. If you missed the webinar we have made it easy for you to catch up - just click the button below.

Evalution

Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Most learning programs are based off the Kirkpatrick model that consists of four levels. Learn more about the benefits of custom eLearning solutions. One simple way you can ensure that a custom eLearning solution delivers the right results is by designing the program around the desired outcome.

Custom eLearning Development

Origin Learning

JULY 10, 2014

Kirkpatrick , Professor Emeritus, University Of Wisconsin first gave his ideas for a series of articles to be published in the Journal of American Society of Training Directors in the year 1959, hardly had anyone anticipated that this was to be the stuff of legend. Organizations world over have benefited from it. When Donald L.

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Spark Your Interest

JANUARY 11, 2022

And are the benefits of training evaluations worth the effort? But first, what are the benefits of training evaluations, and are they worth the effort? Benefits Of Training Evaluations. But before we get into specific examples, let’s highlight the benefits. That’s where training evaluations come in.

Evalution

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

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."

Evalution

Tesseract Learning

APRIL 14, 2022

This article will explore the Kirkpatrick Model for the efficacious evaluation of corporate training. The Kirkpatrick Model, which is globally recognized, can be used to assess the efficacy of the eLearning module. Kirkpatrick Model. The Kirkpatrick model helps evaluate the effectiveness of the training within an organization.

Kirkpatrick

Upside Learning

MAY 2, 2013

Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model has long been the holy grail of training effectiveness measurement to businesses. Look at training as a business driver rather than a staff benefit, and L&D as a consultant who truly wants to help you improve your department’s performance.

Evalution

Infopro Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Investing in employee growth through training and development programs benefits everyone: individuals gain confidence and advancement, while organizations thrive with a skilled and engaged workforce. The Kirkpatrick Model provides a framework, guiding us from reactions to skills gained and real-world application.

Metrics

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They may miss opportunities to leverage the benefits, or perhaps more worrying, they’ll spend on an incompletely-understood premise. The problem with the latter category is that folks will eagerly adopt, or avoid, these topics without understanding the nuances.

Taxonomy

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Until we get around to a whitepaper or something on metrics, here’re some thoughts: Frankly, the problem with Kirkpatrick (sort of like with LMS’ and ADDIE, *drink*) is not in the concept, but in the execution. The keep and kill thresholds likely have to do with the costs versus the benefits.

Metrics

Designing Digitally

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Kirkpatrick's Four-Level Training Evaluation Model is an excellent model to help analyze the impact of training on the organization. . Donald Kirkpatrick , Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, first published the Four-Level Training Evaluation Model in 1959. Description: At Designing Digitally, Inc.,

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dVinci Interactive

JUNE 3, 2015

In the highly competitive employee insurance and benefits industry, Aflac has made training a strategic priority. To evaluate training effectiveness, Aflac uses the five levels of the Kirkpatrick evaluation model.

Sales

Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 19, 2011

I have been blogging a lot about Training Evaluation this year—mostly Kirkpatrick , but also Brinkerhoff and Scriven. I just realized that I haven’t included a single word about Jack Phillips , who introduced Return on Investment (ROI) as Level 5 to Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. Convert Data to Monetary Benefits.

Phillips

CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2016

If you want to learn more about Donald Kirkpatrick and his training evaluation model, visit [link]. Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation are: Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results. Providing context feedback for both right and wrong answers can be used as a means to deliver important supplemental information to learners.

Phillips

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Kirkpatrick's Level 3: Improving the Evaluation of E-Learning Level 3 evaluations measure whether the there was an actual transfer of learning to the actual work setting. Managers look beyond employees to customers, suppliers, and distribution channels -- everyone benefits from seeding eLearning throughout the value chain.

Metrics

Capytech

JULY 21, 2021

Measuring the Success of E-Learning Courses with Kirkpatrick’s Training Evaluation Model. Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model is a solution to these challenges. What is Kirkpatrick’s Training Evaluation Model? It is even more difficult to measure return on investment.

Evalution

CommLab India

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

This is the third blog in the Kirkpatrick Model of Instruction series. In the first part of the series, I covered the need to evaluate any training program and the basics of the Kirkpatrick model of evaluating a training program. In the second part of this series, I delved into each level of the Kirkpatrick model.

Evalution

CommLab India

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This blog is the 5 th part of the Kirkpatrick series that I have been writing about over the last few weeks. Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 of this series dealt with the Kirkpatrick Model of evaluating a training program. There will, however, be some data that cannot be tagged with a monetary value.

Phillips

CLO Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

The Kirkpatrick model. In many ways, coaching is perfectly suited for all four levels of the Kirkpatrick Model, a globally recognized method to measure the impact of learning and development programs. Much like the Kirkpatrick Model, leadership coaching is focused on the individual learner. The business impact of coaching.

Coaching

CommLab India

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

According to Dr. Don Kirkpatrick, there are three reasons to evaluate a training program: To know how to improve future training programs. In my previous blog, I presented a brief introduction to the Kirkpatrick’s Model of Evaluation and its impact on training 1. To determine whether to continue/discontinue a training program.

Evalution

Upside Learning

MARCH 10, 2023

They may miss opportunities to leverage the benefits, or perhaps more worrying, they’ll spend on an incompletely-understood premise. The problem with the latter category is that folks will eagerly adopt, or avoid, these topics without understanding the nuances.

Taxonomy

Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2008

While acknowledging that Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation had proved valuable over more than thirty years in helping to measure instructor-led, content-based 'training' interventions, Sloman felt that a new approach was necessary to support a more self-directed, work-based 'learning' process. Not that ROI is in any way a red herring.

Kirkpatrick

Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2012

Children in Senegal benefit from an interactive whiteboard program called CyberSmart Africa , which runs on a solar-powered battery, making technology accessible to large groups of students – even in schools without electricity. David Kirkpatrick, in an article for Forbes claims that Now Every Company Is a Software Company.

Mobile Learning

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

eLearning ROI calculates the cost of developing and disseminating training programs on eLearning platforms against the benefits or value accrued. Understanding the Benefits of eLearning eLearning now allows enterprises to elevate skill sets and provide access to learning and development programs irrespective of location.

ROI

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

eLearning ROI calculates the cost of developing and disseminating training programs on eLearning platforms against the benefits or value accrued. Understanding the Benefits of eLearning eLearning now allows enterprises to elevate skill sets and provide access to learning and development programs irrespective of location.

ROI

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

eLearning ROI calculates the cost of developing and disseminating training programs on eLearning platforms against the benefits or value accrued. Understanding the Benefits of eLearning eLearning now allows enterprises to elevate skill sets and provide access to learning and development programs irrespective of location.

ROI

CrossKnowledge

JULY 22, 2016

What are the benefits? The Kirkpatrick/Phillips model shows us how and why to assess training outcomes. Assessing the benefits of training is quite different. Instead of a set of data, it involves a chain of measurable proofs of benefit, as shown in the Kirkpatrick/Phillips pyramid. What should we evaluate?

Phillips

Obsidian Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The Kirkpatrick four levels of training evaluation. Kirkpatrick and Kirkpatrick (2006) compare it to measuring customer satisfaction and note that when learners are satisfied with training, they are more motivated to learn. Determination of Return On Investment , or ROI. Quality Control (QC). Level 4: Evaluating Results.

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Obsidian Learning

MAY 10, 2016

New post Evaluating Training – Capturing the Benefits Aspect of ROI on Obsidian Learning. Return on investment (ROI) is a quantification of the relation between the benefits of a program and its costs [benefit-cost ratio (BCR)]. The formula to calculate ROI in this way is: ROI (%) = Benefit – Cost x 100 Cost.

ROI

CourseArc

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

According to the Donald Kirkpatrick’ Evaluation Model for determining training effectiveness, Level 4 seeks to assess “the degree to which targeted outcomes occur as a result of the training and the support and accountability package”. The goal of any training is to reliably produce improved outcomes.

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