Confirmative Evaluation: Practical Strategies for Valuing Continuous Improvement (Tech Training Series) - Hardcover

Dessinger, Joan C.; Moseley, James L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787965006 ISBN 13: 9780787965006

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2004

Synopsis

This much–needed book offers trainers, consultants, evaluation professionals, and human resource executives and practitioners a hands–on resource for understanding and applying the proven principles of confirmative evaluation. Confirmative evaluation is a marriage of evaluation and continuous improvement. Unlike other types of evaluation¾which are used during the design of a learning program or applied immediately after conducting a program¾confirmative evaluation follows several months after the program is implemented. It tests the endurance of outcomes, the return on investment, and establishes the effectivenss, efficiency, impact, and value of the training over time.

About this title

About the Author

Joan Conway Dessinger is founder of and senior consultant with The Lake Group, a performance improvement consulting firm. She is the coauthor of two books with James L. Moseley and Darlene Van Tiem. The books won the 2001 and 2003 Award for Excellence in Instructional Communication from the International Society for Performance Improvement. She is also a contributor to Distance Training and Sustaining Distance Training, both from Jossey–Bass.

James L. Moseley is an associate professor of community medicine at Wayne State University and is also on the faculty of the College of Education, in the instructional technology department. He has won numerous awards for teaching and mentoring and frequently consults with business and industry on program evaluation and needs assessment.

From the Back Cover

Your Guide to Confirmative Evaluation

At a time when no expenditure is going unquestioned in organizations, training professionals are under increased pressure to prove the continuing efficiency, effectiveness, impact, and value of training programs as well as the continuing competence of the learners.

This much–needed book offers trainers, consultants, evaluation professionals, and human resource executives and practitioners a hands–on resource for understanding and applying the proven principles of confirmative evaluation. Confirmative evaluation is a marriage of evaluation and continuous improvement. Unlike other types of evaluation which are used during the design of a learning program or applied immediately after conducting a program confirmative evaluation follows several months after the program is implemented. It tests the endurance of outcomes, the return on investment, and establishes the effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and value of the training over time.

Throughout Confirmative Evaluation the authors show how to:

• Develop a complete, accurate, and useful confirmative evaluation plan
• Assess the evaluability of the training process
• Use a flowchart, a rating form, and other performance support techniques and tools to support confirmative evaluation
• Employ hard and soft technologies to conduct an efficient and effective confirmative evaluation
• Seamlessly add confirmative evaluation to your repertoire of knowledge and skills
• Interpret the data and communicate the results

This book provides an on–the–job guide for planning and conducting confirmative evaluation of training programs and is filled with useful tables, figures, performance support tools, references, a glossary, and a thorough case study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787965006
• ISBN 13: 9780787965006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272