Predictive Evaluation

169 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h7min.
A long-time leader, practitioner, and pioneer in evaluating training programs offers a powerful and proven new approach to challenging training topics: how to predict in advance whether training programs will produce the desired results and be cost-effective, track progress as the training programs are underway, and gather more useful information for evaluating what worked and didn’t work.At last, an answer to the question that has bedeviled trainers for decades. Predictive evaluation enables you to effectively and accurately forecast training's value to your company, measure against these predictions, establish indicators to track your progress, make midcourse corrections, and report the results in a language that business executives respond to and understand. Dave Basarab explains how to begin by identifying the specific goals and beliefs you want to instill in participants. The next step is to determine exactly what these will look like when put into action. Finally you develop quantifiable measures of how employees' adopting the target beliefs and goals will impact the business. A key strength of this process is that it is profoundly collaborative—supervisors and employees work together to establish standards for success each step of the way. A how-to guide filled with worksheets, examples, and other tools, Predictive Evaluation ensures that, rather than being regarded as an expense and an act of faith, training will be seen as an investment with a concrete payoff. ForewordPrefaceIntroduction: An Innovative Method of Training Evaluation1. The Predictive Evaluation Approach2. Predicting Training's Value3. Intention Evaluation4. Adoption Evaluation5. Impact Evaluation6. How to Get Started--Implementing Predictive EvaluationGlossaryNotesBibliography and Recommended ReadingsAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author