Viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=emergency-medicine&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google. Mohamed & Alias (2012) 1Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Training ProgramUsing the Four Level Kirkpatrick Model in theBanking S. Holton (1996) The flawed 4 level evaluation model. Salas & Cannon-Bowers (2001) Alliger et al (1996) AMETA-ANALYSISOFTHERELATIONSAMONGTRAININGCRITERIA. Classic Writings on Instructional Technology. Justice (2011) Use ofTrainingModels to ImproveTraining Practices. Donald Kirkpatrick. Donald Kirkpatrick is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States and a past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
He is best known for creating a highly influential 'four level' model for training course evaluation, which served as the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation in 1954. Kirkpatrick's ideas were published to a broader audience in 1959 in a series of articles in the US Training and Development Journal, but they are better known from a book he published in 1994 entitled "Evaluating Training Programs. "[1] Other books that he has written on training evaluation include "Transferring Learning to Behavior"[2] and "Implementing the Four Levels"[3] Don's son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Wendy, carry on Don's work through Kirkpatrick Partners, a training evaluation and consulting company founded in 2008 for which Don serves as the Honorary Chairman.
Four Levels of Learning Evaluation[edit] Distinguishing Between Levels 2 and 3[edit] ASTD2011 Don Kirkpatrick Tribute Live. Kirkpatrick Partners is a provider of training evaluation and business partnership training, products, consulting and impact studies. Our work is based on the Kirkpatrick 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, both qualitative and quantitative.
Donald (Don), James (Jim), and Wendy Kirkpatrick are pleased to be united as Kirkpatrick Partners. Kirkpatrick Four Level Model of Training Evaluation created by Donald Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick Partners, home of Donald L. Kirkpatrick and the Kirkpatrick Four Levels Evaluation Model. Donald kirkpatrick's learning evaluation theory - a training and learning measurement, evaluations and assessments model. Donald L Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model - the four levels of learning evaluation also below - HRD performance evaluation guide Donald L Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus, University Of Wisconsin (where he achieved his BBA, MBA and PhD), first published his ideas in 1959, in a series of articles in the Journal of American Society of Training Directors.
The articles were subsequently included in Kirkpatrick's book Evaluating Training Programs (originally published in 1994; now in its 3rd edition - Berrett-Koehler Publishers). Donald Kirkpatrick was president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) in 1975. Kirkpatrick has written several other significant books about training and evaluation, more recently with his similarly inclined son James, and has consulted with some of the world's largest corporations.
More recently Don Kirkpatrick formed his own company, Kirkpatrick Partners, whose website provides information about their services and methods, etc. see also.