Exam 11: Training Evaluation

You are putting together a short report addressing why many training programs are poorly evaluated by organizations beyond Kirkpatrick's "level one." Which of the following is NOT likely to be in your report

Which of the following statements best describes the state of training evaluation in Canada according to the Conference Board of Canada

What is the most significant advantage of conducting learning tests with trainees

J.Bruce Tracey,Scott Tannenbaum,and Michael Kavanagh proposed a scale to measure which of the following organizational issues

Transfer motivation is critical in supporting transfer of training content.One technique uses the expectancy theory measuring three variables: valence,instrumentality,and expectancies.Which of the following statements is associated with the "instrumentality" variable

What are the two broad categories of barriers to training evaluation

a)Identify the four levels of Kirkpatrick's hierarchical model of evaluation and briefly explain the concerns with it. b)What is the fundamental difference between Level 4 and Level 5 (the new addition to the original four levels of Kirkpatrick's model)

Which statement reflects the concept of perceived support

Kirkpatrick's hierarchical model has four levels.Of these four levels,a survey provided to trainees after training is often associated with collecting data for calculating behavioural changes at work.

One of the more rigorous evaluation technique involves measuring the level of satisfaction by trainees after completing a training program.

According to the textbook,which of the following statements is NOT correct when looking at the meaning and purpose of training evaluation processes

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of Kirkpatrick's hierarchical evaluation model

Training evaluation is a process that helps organizations determine if expected training outcomes actually materialize.

Your company wants to use the observation method to measure post-training behaviour changes.What advice would you provide your company about using this method

One of the main implications of the Kirkpatrick model of evaluation is the interdependencies among the four levels of evaluation.In practical terms,"(L1)should cause trainee learning (L2),which in turn should cause behaviour (L3),and so on."

What kind of research design would you use if you had very limited resources and were concerned only with measuring improvements in a group of trained employees

Which common shortcoming is shared by all three descriptive training evaluation models described in the textbook

Why would management be interested in a revision of Kirkpatrick's model that includes a fifth element,and are there situations when calculating a return on a training investment is not practical

Which theory is an important technique used to assess motivation to transfer

Which of the following statements is NOT congruent with conclusions in theChapter-opening vignette on Bell Canada