“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Effective training
Assessing training effectiveness
Since our spiritual development takes place in part through training, being able to determine what does and does not work in our training is critical.
Designing surveys top^
Data Collection Tips: Developing a Survey
An overview of some common issues in constructing a survey.
Innovation Network, linked 08/16
http://www.innonet.org/client_docs/File/Survey_Dev_Tips.pdf
Survey Design
A brief introduction to survey design for those new to survey research.
Creative Research Systems website, linked 08/16
http://www.surveysystem.com/sdesign.htm
SurveyMonkey
A web tool to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.
Website, linked 08/16
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Default.aspx
Evaluating learners top^
Align Assessments with Objectives
Provides examples of the kinds of activities that can be used to assess different types of learning objectives, and the ways that we can analyze or measure performance to produce useful feedback for teaching and learning.
Carnegie Mellon University, linked 08/16
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/design/assessments.html
Bloom's Taxonomy
A categorization of types of questions that can be asked to assess learners, created by Benjamin Bloom, that is useful for developing both learning exercises and tests of knowledge acquisition.
University of Victoria Counselling Services, linked 08/16
http://ltc.uvic.ca/servicesprograms/documents/BloomsTaxonomy.pdf
Formative Assessment in the Classroom
An overview of formative assessment strategies - i.e., ongoing, repetitive measures designed to provide information to both the instructor and students concerning students' understanding of small segments of course material.
University of NC, website, linked 08/16
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/5212
Summative Classroom Assessment
An overview of summative assessments as outcome measures that emphasize student achievement rather than aptitude or effort.
University of NC, website, linked 08/16
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/5233?ref=search
Evaluating training delivery top^
10 Tips on Creating Training Evaluation Forms, with Samples
Provides ten simple design tips and also includes two sample training evaluation forms to give you templates to follow.
Dorothy Riddle, Service-Growth Consultants Inc., Copyright 2008, linked 08/16
http://servicegrowth.net/documents/10 Tips on Creating Training Evaluation Forms.net.pdf
Kirkpatrick's Four Levels - Assessing Training Effectiveness
An excellent summary of the types and timing of training evaluation.
NYCI website, linked 08/16
http://www.youth.ie/sites/youth.ie/files/Kirkpatrick%20Evaluation.pdf