Training Evaluation: Knowing More Than Is Practiced

TLDR

Training program evaluation is a crucial but often underutilized phase of the ADDIE process. The article aims to develop a summative evaluation framework to assess the quality, effectiveness, and impact of systematic training within ADDIE. The authors link final summative evaluation to analysis‑phase direction and organizational concerns, proposing a framework for assessing training effectiveness.

Abstract

The problem and the solution. Training program evaluation is an important and culminating phase in the analysis, design, develop, implement, evaluate (ADDIE) process. However, evaluation has often been overlooked or not implemented to its full capacity. To assess and ensure the quality, effectiveness, and the impact of systematic training, this article emphasizes the importance of summative evaluation at the last phase of ADDIE and presents developments toward a summative evaluation framework of training program effectiveness. The focus is the connection of final summative evaluation to the direction provided by the analysis phase and the concerns of the host organization.