Training and Development For Dummies

Chapter 13

Evaluation: It’s Not Over Yet!

In This Chapter

Recognizing the purpose of evaluations

Getting an overview of Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels

Understanding the basics of creating a practical evaluation plan

Listing of skills facilitators/trainers can use for their own professional evaluation

Evaluate performance — that’s the fifth and last stage of the ADDIE model discussed in Chapter 3. When you reach this stage, you have made it through the entire Training Cycle, and it is now that you can see the beauty of the complete cycle. You will find yourself returning to the earlier stages during the evaluation stage. For example, you will return to the assessment stage to confirm that you’re evaluating what you designed the training for in the first place. You may use the objectives you wrote in the second stage to create specific evaluation criteria. You want the training objectives you write to be specific, measurable, and easily converted to items on an evaluation instrument or performance rating.

The evaluation stage of The Training Cycle, highlighted in Figure 13-1, is important ...