ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training

Epilogue

What, then, are the “learnings” from these interviews? What forecast for the future of training evaluation and measurement can we derive from the comments of these legends?

• Standing on the shoulders of those who came before, the history of measurement and evaluation is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
• Many of the innovations came from examining what had been done and simply asking, “why” and “what if?”
• Donald Kirkpatrick, Jack Phillips, and William Rothwell use the same analogy about proof and evidence before a “jury” that increasingly holds our fate in its hands.
• A great consensus exists that there is (and will continue to be) ...