Download or read book The Effects of Types of Training Evaluation on Support of Training Among Corporate Managers written by Mitchell Edward Kusy and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Training Programs written by Donald Kirkpatrick and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the bestselling classic Donald Kirkpatrick is a true legend in the training field: he is a past president of ASTD, a member of Training magazine's "HRD Hall of Fame," and the recipient of the 2003 "Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance" from ASTD In 1959 Donald Kirkpatrick developed a four-level model for evaluating training programs. Since then, the "Kirkpatrick Model" has become the most widely used approach to training evaluation in the corporate, government, and academic worlds. Evaluating Training Programs provided the first comprehensive guide to Kirkpatrick's Four Level Model, along with detailed case studies of how the model is being used successfully in a wide range of programs and institutions. This new edition includes revisions and updates of the existing material plus new case studies that show the four-level model in action. Going beyond just using simple reaction questionnaires to rate training programs, Kirkpatrick's model focuses on four areas for a more comprehensive approach to evaluation: Evaluating Reaction, Evaluating Learning, Evaluating Behavior, and Evaluating Results. Evaluating Training Programs is a how-to book, designed for practitiners in the training field who plan, implement, and evaluate training programs. The author supplements principles and guidelines with numerous sample survey forms for each step of the process. For those who have planned and conducted many programs, as well as those who are new to the training and development field, this book is a handy reference guide that provides a practical and proven model for increasing training effectiveness through evaluation. In the third edition of this classic bestseller, Kirkpatrick offers new forms and procedures for evaluating at all levels and several additional chapters about using balanced scorecards and "Managing Change Effectively." He also includes twelve new case studies from organizations that have been evaluated using one or more of the four levels--Caterpillar, Defense Acquisition University, Microsoft, IBM, Toyota, Nextel, The Regence Group, Denison University, and Pollack Learning Alliance.
Download or read book Evaluating Business and Industry Training written by Leslie Steven May and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry. However, in the rush of providing training programs "on time" and "within budget," evaluation of training is frequently left behind as a "nice to have" addition, if practical. In addition, the training function itself is left with the dilemma of proving its worth to management without a substantive history of evaluation. This book is designed to provide managers, educators, and trainers alike the opportunity to explore the issues and benefits of evaluating business and industry training. The purpose is to motivate more effective decisions for training investments based on information about the value of training in attaining business goals. Without evaluation, the value of specific training efforts cannot be adequately measured, the value of training investments overall cannot be fully assessed, and the contributions of the training function to the corporation's goals cannot be duly recognized. Articles are grouped into three sections, althou~h many themes appear across sections. The first section estabhshes the context of training evaluation in a business organization. The second section emphasizes evaluation of training products and services; and the third section discusses costs and benefits of evaluation, and communication and use of evaluation results in decision making. In Section I, the context of training evaluation is established from a variety of perspectives. First, training and trainin~ evaluation are discussed in the context of corporate strateglc goals.
Download or read book Kirkpatrick s Four Levels of Training Evaluation written by James D. Kirkpatrick and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely update to a timeless model. Don Kirkpatrick's groundbreaking Four Levels of Training Evaluation is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practice, and you'll get an enthusiastic affirmation. But how many variations of Kirkpatrick are in use today? And what number of misassumptions and faulty practices have crept in over 60 years? The reality is: Quite a few. James and Wendy Kirkpatrick have written Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation to set the record straight. Delve into James and Wendy's new findings that, together with Don Kirkpatrick's work, create the New World Kirkpatrick Model, a powerful training evaluation methodology that melds people with metrics. In Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation, discover a comprehensive blueprint for implementing the model in a way that truly maximizes your business's results. Using these innovative concepts, principles, techniques, and case studies, you can better train people, improve the way you work, and, ultimately, help your organization meet its most crucial goals.
Download or read book The Success Case Method written by Robert O. Brinkerhoff and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, organizations spend millions of dollars trying out new innovations and improvements-and millions will be wasted if they can't quickly find out what's working and what is not. The Success Case Method offers a breakthrough evaluation technique that is easier, faster, and cheaper than competing approaches, and produces compelling evidence decision-makers can actually use. Because it seeks out the best stories of how real individuals have actually used innovations, The Success Case Method can ferret out success no matter how small or infrequent. It can salvage the few ''gems'' of success from a larger initiative that is not doing well or find out how to make a partially successful effort even more successful. The practical methods and tools in this book can help those who initiate and foster change, including leaders, executives, managers, consultants, training directors, and anyone else who is trying to make things work better in organizations get the greatest returns for their investments.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staff Training written by William Crimando and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1990, the authors have provided a scholarly treatment of the body of training literature between 1980 and 1988 that can be used by practitioners. They have drawn from as many different sources as possible and have tried to maintain a balance between popular and academic literature. This title will also be of interest to students of business studies and human resource management.
Download or read book The Training Evaluation Process written by David J. Basarab Sr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details a unique training evaluation approach developed by David J. Basarab, Sr. currently the Manager of Evaluation at Motorola University. This approach was developed in part based on information from his graduate coursework with Dr. Darrell K. Root, professor of program evaluation and educational administration at the University of Dayton. It enabled Motorola to evaluate their corporate training programs to determine whether money spent on training was an investment or an expense. This evaluation approach is also significant in determining either the effectiveness of or the opportunities to improve corporate training programs. In this text, The Training Evaluation Process, David Basarab and Darrell Root provide commercial industry training with a step-by-step approach to use when evaluating training progrruns, thus allowing training to be viewed as an investment rather than an expense. This text focuses on assessing training programs, so that they may be improved. This approach provides a successful procedure to use when evaluating training programs. Included in the text is a comprehensive explanation of the evaluation model developed by D. L. Kirkpatrick (Kirkpatrick, D. L., November 1959) in which he described four levels of evaluating training progrruns: Level 1 -Reaction: Evaluate to learn participants' perception to the training program. Level 2 -Learning: Evaluate to determine whether participants have learned the course subject matter. Level 3 -Behavior: Evaluate participants' use of newly acquired job skills on the job. Level 4 -Results: Evaluate the organizational impact of training on company's workforce.
Download or read book Evaluating Training Programs in Business and Industry written by Robert O. Brinkerhoff and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of Training written by Scott B. Parry and published by ASTD. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpen your expertise in applying different methods of evaluation to a variety of organizations and areas of training. This book's lessons guide you through every step and illustrates the process with real-life examples. Helpful tools and checklists explain how to win support from senior management, evaluate your instructional strengths, and more.
Download or read book Results written by Richard A. Swanson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why measure results in HRD? If HRD is to be a core organizational process, it must act like one and hold itself accountable. Assessing results, particularly bottom-line performance results, is key to gaining support from top management. And those who measure results ultimately find it a source of program improvement and innovation as well as pride and satisfaction. Results is both theoretically sound and firmly rooted in practice. The practical five-step assessment process the authors present gives readers a simple and direct journey from analysis inputs to decision outputs. This book provides the tools required for effective and efficient assessment of the outcomes resulting from development efforts in organizations.
Download or read book Evaluating Training Programs Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by Donald L. Kirkpatrick and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald L. Kirkpatrick presents a system for evaluating the effectiveness of a training program. The system assesses four types of information: the reactions of the participants, the learning they achieved, changes in their behavior, and the final business results (such as increased production, improved quality, decreased costs, or higher profits). This solid, organized approach to evaluation includes guidelines, sample questionnaires, charts and formulas, as well as case studies of companies using this approach. However, because it is fairly dry and technical, this book primarily will interest those who run or rely upon training programs. The summaries of the first chapters - covering the evaluation system - can provide managers and executives with a general idea of this approach and the research involved. But getabstract particularly recommends this book to those leading training programs, because they can use its specific material as a reference when undertaking evaluations.
Download or read book Analysis for Improving Performance written by Richard A. Swanson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis for Improving Performance provides the tools for doing the crucial -yet often overlooked-upfront analysis essential to the success of any performance improvement effort. Human resource development expert Richard A. Swanson's step by step method allows program developers and managers to: * Assess an organisation's real business needs and the status of its supporting systems * Analyse necessary worker skills, knowledge and attitudes * Specify performance requirements and evaluation standards * Produce a viable and comprehensive performance improvement design Tools for diagnosing organisations & documenting workplace expertise.
Download or read book Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods written by Jack J. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, third edition of Jack Phillips's classic Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods shows the reader not only how to design, implement, and assess the effectiveness of HRD programs, but how to ultimately measure their return on investment (ROI). Each chapter has been revised and updated to include additional research, expanded coverage, and new examples of Dr. Phillips's case studies. Seven entirely new chapters have also been added, focusing largely on ROI.
Download or read book Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods written by Jack J. Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s economic climate means that anyone involved in training and development must be able to measure its effect on business performance. With a focus on costs, benefits, and return on investment, this book provides a comprehensive reference for those who are learning about or implementing an evaluation system. This new edition is fully revised and updated to reflect current developments, with step-by-step guidance on a range of vital topics, including: Developing a results-based approach to HRD Evaluation design Data collection and measuring success Calculating program costs and ROI Increasing management support for HRD programs. With end-of-chapter discussion questions and an accompanying online Instructor Guide, this fourth edition provides sound theory and practical solutions. The Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods is a complete and detailed reference guide suitable for HRD professionals and students in advanced courses in HRD, training evaluation, and program evaluation.
Download or read book Perspectives of Training Evaluation Among Nuclear Power Training Professionals and Line Managers written by Eul-Kyoo Bae and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore perspectives of training evaluation among training professionals and line managers in U.S. nuclear power plants. The conceptual framework identified three perspectives of evaluation of training: judgment, improvement, and learning. The study sought to determine the distinctiveness of these perspectives and whether training professionals and line managers differed on which perspective was most important to them. For this study, a survey was developed that included items representing each of the perspective and was administered to 583 line managers and training professionals in 65 U.S. nuclear power plants. The collected data was analyzed with the methods of structural equation modeling, multivariate analysis of variance, and descriptive statistics. The results showed that a three-factor model representing the three perspectives of training evaluation reasonably fit the data from the line managers and training professionals, while there was a high correlation between improvement and learning perspectives and there were correlations among some sets of items regarding the information of financial impacts of training, job analysis, instructional quality, and interventionist evaluation. The results also showed that there were no significant differences between line manager and training professional groups on the three perspectives, while evaluations of financial impact, factors affecting transfer of training, and interventionist evaluation were neglected despite their importance. It was also found that the extent to which line managers and training professionals received the evaluation information affected the level of satisfaction with this information. The results support the existence of three perspectives of training evaluation among the respondents. If true beyond the current research setting, such a conclusion has implications for designing future training evaluations. In practice, the three perspectives provide a potential frame for training evaluation that has greater theoretical support than some current training evaluation models. That training managers and line managers did not differ in their perspective of training evaluation may be unique aspect of the nuclear industry. Future studies should seek to further confirm the existence of the three perspectives of training evaluation, recognizing the inherent difficulty in obtaining matched sets of data from training professionals and line managers across numerous organizations.
Download or read book Analysis for Improving Performance written by Richard Swanson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporations spend millions of dollars on performance improvement, employee training and development, work system redesign, and other organizational improvement efforts. Much of this money is wasted because the preliminary analysis and diagnosis has not been done to link these programs to an organization's real business needs, goals, and processes. The truth is that in order for any performance improvement effort to add value to the organization, deep analysis is required. Analysis for Improving Performance details a systematic approach for doing the rigorous preparatory analysis that is vital to shaping and developing successful performance improvement efforts. Richard A. Swanson's methods enable program developers and managers to define clear objectives, assess existing systems and missions, analyze worker knowledge and expertise, define desired performance and evaluation standards, and develop a performance improvement plan that will meet the desired performance goals. This new edition has been extensively revised throughout and presents expanded concepts and updated cases, as well as a new chapter on documenting and improving work processes and documenting process-referenced tasks. Written for take-charge managers, performance improvement specialists, and workers wanting to improve their organizations, Analysis for Improving Performance provides “real-world” knowledge, tools, examples, graphics, and exercises aimed at developing your expertise in diagnosing organizational performance and documenting workplace expertise—the keys to long-term organizational success. In short, it is a complete guide to ensuring that the time, money, and effort you invest in organizational development are well spent.
