Evaluating Training - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions

Evaluating Training - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions Synopsis

The evaluation of a training curriculum can focus on many different results in order to determine its effectiveness, such as the participant's increased knowledge and behavior change, as well as the impact of training on client and agency outcomes. There are also a variety of different research methods and strategies that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a curriculum. This book is your one-stop, ultimate resource for Evaluating Training. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links covering all aspects of Evaluating Training: Evaluation, 100 Best Workplaces in Europe, Academic equivalency evaluation, Accountability, Accuracy and precision, American Evaluation Association, Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, BAPCo consortium, Career portfolio, Careerscope, CESG Claims Tested Mark, Commercial Product Assurance, Common Criteria, Common Criteria Testing Laboratory, Competency evaluation, Continuous assessment, Cryptographic Module Testing Laboratory, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Stewart Donaldson, Ecological indicator, Educational assessment, Educational evaluation, Encomium, Evaluation approaches, Evaluation Assurance Level, Expression (mathematics), Expression (computer science), Formation evaluation, Formative assessment, Formative evaluation, General Learning Ability, Goddard College, Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique, Health technology assessment, Immanent evaluation, Impact assessment, Impact evaluation, Integrity, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Knowledge survey, Leadership accountability, Narrative evaluation, Natural experiment, Operations Evaluation Department, Pearson Assessment & Information, Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers, Problem, Program evaluation, Program Evaluation and Review Technique, Quality (business), Quality assurance, Quantitative risk assessment software, Recognition (sociology), Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, Review, Risk assessment, Risk Matrix, Scale of one to ten, SDET, Self-evaluation motives, Shifting baseline, SPECpower, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, Summative assessment, The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For, Teaching And Learning International Survey, Technology assessment, Transferable skills analysis, Voting, World Bank's Inspection Panel, XTS-400, Accelerated aging, Adaptive comparative judgement, Alternative assessment, Aptitude, Axiomatic design, Axiomatic product development lifecycle, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Between-group design, British Polling Council, Business excellence, Case series, Case study, Central composite design, Challenge-dechallenge-rechallenge, Check weigher, Class rank, Clerk of Works, Clinical trial, Cohort study, Common-cause and special-cause, Component-Based Usability Testing, Computer-based assessment, Conformity assessment, Consensus decision-making, Consensus-seeking decision-making, Content analysis, Context analysis, Contingent valuation, Control limits, Cost-benefit analysis, Creative participation, Critical appraisal, Critical to quality, CTQ tree, Cytel, Design Science, Destructive testing, Digital strategy, E-assessment, Economic appraisal, Economic impact analysis, Eddy Test, Educational accreditation, Higher education accreditation, Eightfold Path (policy analysis)...and much moreThis book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Evaluating Training. It reduces the risk of your time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Evaluating Training with the objectivity of experienced professionals. Unique, authoritative, and wide-ranging, it offers practical and strategic advice for managers, business owners and students worldwide.

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