Leveling Up on Evaluation
Evaluation is the often-neglected piece of many learning & development programs. It’s like flossing. Everyone knows we should do it, and the benefits are clear. And yet many programs go unevaluated due to lack of time, lack of prioritization, lack of effective tools, or lack of comfort with data.
In this session we’ll take a comprehensive approach to your evaluation work, starting with the design of the learning experience itself. As you begin a project, you can identify goals, learner personas and desired outcomes in ways that set you -- and your organizational sponsors – up for success in measuring later on. Then, we’ll take a brief interlude into some basics of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and how the two can reinforce each other in your evaluation efforts. This establishes a baseline for looking at two popular schema for evaluation: the Kirkpatrick-Katzell levels and the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model. Participants will have an opportunity to work with these models to lay out an evaluation plan for their own real-world examples.
As a result, participants will be ready to:
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Align instructional design strategies with evaluation goals from the outset using design-thinking techniques
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Identify a variety of ways to evaluate learning & development programs
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Collect both qualitative and quantitative data to tell a complete story about a program’s impact
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Make a plan for evaluation of their own program using either Kirkpatrick-Katzell Levels or the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model (or a combination of both!)
ATD Competency Model
8:00 am - Opening Remarks
8:10 am – Megan Torrance
About the Presenter:
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI. TorranceLearning hosts the xAPI Learning Cohort, a free, virtual 12-week learning-by-doing opportunity where teams form on the fly and create proof-of-concept xAPI projects.
Megan is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA® for ISD Project Management and Making Sense of xAPI. She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning projects have won several Brandon Hall Group awards, the 2014 xAPI Hyperdrive contest at DevLearn, and back-to-back Learning Guild DemoFest Best-In-Show awards in 2016/2017 with xAPI projects. TorranceLearning is a 2018 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch.In 2019, the Learning Guild named Megan as a Guild Master for her contributions to professional development in the workplace L&D industry.
A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Communication and an MBA, and an eCornell Facilitator in the Women's Leadership curriculum, Megan lives and works near Ann Arbor, Michigan.
