Kirkpatrick's Four Levels Of Evaluation

Training and Development Discussion 6 Name Institution Training and Development Discussion 6 Donald Kirkpatrick was a man who believed in perfection and getting things right. His desire to ensure perfection in training and education programs began a long time ago, but it was in 1994 that he decided to publish Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels. In this book, he provides details of the four levels which can be used to evaluate a training program and hence the evolution of the Kirkpatrick Four Level Evaluation Model. Therefore, a simple and brief explanation of the Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation is a model that is used to assess and evaluate the “results of training and educational programs” (Forest, 2018). This model considers all training styles and determines the appropriateness and effectiveness of each based on the four levels. In my Portfolio Project assignment, I would use level 3 which simply seeks to determine or assess any changes in the behavior of the participants. According to Rouse (2011), this level “attempts to determine the extent to which new sk...