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This practical guide, a companion to Donald Kirkpatrick's Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels, provides a framework for putting his system into practice.

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Implementing the Four Levels

“Don and Jim's insights on management buy-in tactics and many practical examples of how to execute comprehensive level three and four evaluations are truly invaluable. As no industry dynamics are exactly the same, I found the flexibility of options / tools / resources around learning evaluations to be credible and comprehensive.“

Barbara Hewitt
Executive Director, MGM Grand University

Why Read Implementing the Four Levels?

The purpose of this book is to make it easy for the reader to understand the four levels that Donald Kirkpatrick developed and to obtain practical help on how to apply any one of them.

Chapter 1 demonstrates how to decide what needs evaluation and at what levels.

Chapter 2 explains why getting managers on board is important and how to do it. Managers are key in developing effective curriculum and are needed to provide support and accountability when trainees move from the classroom to the job. Involving managers in this process will aid your levels 3 and 4 evaluation, when you have no authority, only influence.

Chapters 3 - 6 provide guidelines and practical help for evaluation at each of the four levels.

The last chapter explains why it is necessary to evaluate all the levels in sequence and not try to measure results without first evaluating at the first three levels. This is the best way to demonstrate the value of training.


Book Specifications
Authors: Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (October 1, 2007)
Cover Price: $36.95

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Kirkpatrick Partners is a provider of training evaluation and business partnership training, products, consulting, and impact studies. Our work is based on the Kirkpatrick Four Levels™ Evaluation Model created by Donald L. Kirkpatrick in 1954 as part of his PhD dissertation on the evaluation of the effectiveness of training for supervisors. It is expanded by the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model and Kirkpatrick Foundational Principles.

Instead of training ROI, we focus on training Return on Expectations (ROE). This is a more holistic measurement of all of the benefits realized from a program or initiative, qualitative and quantitative. We offer courses and workshops on training evaluation and business partnership that equip training professionals to create, demonstrate, and measure the business results and value their training yields or supports.

Donald (Don), James (Jim), and Wendy Kirkpatrick are pleased to be united as Kirkpatrick Partners. Whether you want to earn your Kirkpatrick certification or simply create more value in your organization, we are here to help. Our programs are valuable whether you are a corporate employee, member of government, or an independent consultant.

The Kirkpatricks are the authors of nine books including Evaluating Training Programs, Implementing the Four Levels, Transferring Learning to Results, Kirkpatrick Then and Now, and Training on Trial.

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