Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels Donald L Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The Kirkpatrick model is based on the following four levels of outcome evaluation with each level leading to the next: Table. Evaluating Training Programs (3rd ed.). Level 1 – Reaction As the word implies, evaluation at this level measures how those who participate in the program react to it. Understanding Kirkpatrick's Four Level Training Evaluation Model. Students may enroll in eight-week fall, winter, and spring programs; two- to four-week summer sessions; and a six-week Saturday-only summer program. First film acting program for teens,” Rita Litton's ACTeen—winner of multiple Backstage Readers' Choice Awards—offers full-time, part-time, after-school, and weekend theatrical and on- camera training programs for teens and young adults of all skill levels. Paraprofessionals known as Program Representatives provide the day-to-day operations for programming at the local level. My article was “Donald L Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model – the four levels of learning evaluation”, which talked about the evaluation theories of Donald L Kirkpatrick's, Professor Emeritus, University Of Wisconsin. Private coaching and evaluation are also available. After that, for each program one has to set measurable learning objectives. Kirkpatrick established a change in the trainee's performance. Perhaps the best know training methodology is Kirkpatrick's Four Level Evaluation Model. I feel that these four criteria are good places to evaluate the success of a training program, especially when the training programs are administered in a business/workplace environment.