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When and How Much to Evaluate

Since time is always of the essence—there is never enough of it to

exhaust every aspect of each step in the training process—you are

challenged to determine how much evaluation is enough. Here are

some thoughts to bear in mind when designing training and paying

heed to the critical evaluation element:

1. Build as much evaluation into the process as possible, which will

render after-the-fact evaluation (other than that done later, on the

job) much less important. Several performance measurements

during training will serve quite well and take far less time than

testing participants when the training is done.

2. Prioritize evaluation according to how cri