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Tag Archives: evaluation
Training as “Drug of Choice”
Roger Chevalier noted that many managers are addicted to training. It is their “drug of choice” for fixing problems in their organization. Unfortunately, as with any drug, training: Is very expensive Is highly addictive Is used repetitively Often focuses on … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Evaluation, HPT, ISPI Vancouver Chapter Events, PI Interventions
Tagged evaluation, training
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Behavioural objectives
What are some specific steps that you can use to move to greater use of human performance technology with the clients you serve? Roger Chevalier had a number of suggestions during last Monday’s meeting. The first thing that comes to … Continue reading
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Tagged behavioural objectives, evaluation, instruction, instructional objectives, resources
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How effective are end-of-class evaluations in predicting on-the-job success?
On Monday, Roger Chevalier spoke at the Vancouver ISPI meeting about Moving from Training to Performance. My favourite story from the evening revolved around training evaluations. In a real estate office, one of the instructors was consistently getting poor end-of-class … Continue reading
Sloppy Evaluation
During the last Chapter meeting, Thiagi discussed 3 methods of evaluation: jurisprudential, scientific and ethnographic. Jurisprudential evaluation is often associated with the legal field where two sides (defendants and plaintiffs) argue an issue, which is controversial, or where public policy … Continue reading
Evaluation resources
I did a little web search to see what others had to say about evaluation and here are two sites that I quite liked: Virginia Tech lists some evaluation models used to improve evaluation techniques. Although focused on local campuses, I … Continue reading
Anything less than Level 4 is Hypocrisy
During the last Vancouver ISPI meeting, one of the audience members asked Thiagi if he evaluated his own training sessions? The answer gave us some insight into why Thiagi would say, “Anything less than Level 4 is hypocrisy”. As an … Continue reading
Focus of evaluation
In my previous post, I discussed evaluating the results of a course to see whether my curriculum objectives were achieved. The desired result could be a student using Software X to create a brochure or a student working with Gadget … Continue reading
Purpose of Evaluation
Last week Thiagi spoke about the purpose of evaluation, which falls into two categories: – To improve (formative) – To see if a goal is met; to make a yes/no decision (summative) He also noted that although formative and summative … Continue reading
Posted in Evaluation, HPT
Tagged evaluation, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, Thiagi
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Product, Process, People
During Tuesday’s meeting, Thiagi stepped us through some examples of the things that we evaluate: A box of Smarties (product) A learning management system (process) A conference participant (people) One of Thiagi’s arguments is that we often evaluate more than … Continue reading
Making Evaluation Memorable
I always enjoy an evening with good friends, lively conversation and interaction. This is exactly what yesterday’s Vancouver ISPI chapter meeting felt like to me. Although the topic – evaluation – is serious, the presentation itself was engaging, humorous, and … Continue reading
