From the course: Practical Success Metrics in Your Training Program

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Why evaluate participant learning?

Why evaluate participant learning?

From the course: Practical Success Metrics in Your Training Program

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Why evaluate participant learning?

- Remember in school when your teacher called a pop quiz? I know, not something you want to remember. But there's a reason the teacher did this. They wanted to see how much you learned, and make sure you learned what you were supposed to. This is a level two evaluation. You're assessing how much knowledge people have actually retained from your training. You may not do pop quizzes at work, but companies invest a lot of money, time and hard work training their employees and expect them to do what they do properly. Simply, the fundamental purpose for assessing or testing employees after training are to build employee confidence in learning new skills. Prove to management that employees are competent. And to evaluate the effectiveness of your training. First, employees go to training to be better at what they do. But this change creates anxiety. Your role as a trainer is to focus on what they need to know to become better,…

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