Chapter 5. The Basics of Evaluation

What’s Inside This Chapter

Here you will see how to:

  • Determine the level of evaluation you want to do

  • Decide what to evaluate

  • Distinguish among the various levels of evaluation and the tools that are used in each.

Evaluation is often called assessment, particularly when evaluating learning that results from training. You may be slightly confused about the term assessment showing up in the context of evaluation because the term was used in the earlier discussion of training analysis.

The best advice is to not worry about terms and keep in mind that analysis occurs before the training takes place. Evaluation usually ...

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