Category: Evaluation Report
In Predictive Evaluation (PE), I share my evaluation findings with stakeholders using the dashboard concept. The dashboard is a report to senior management providing an at-a-glance perspective on the current status of a course in the context of predetermined (predicted) metrics for that program (Intention, Adoption, or Impact). PE dashboards are simple, short, and do not require interpretation. Click here for a sample of these types of
Predictive Evalution
dashboards.
Recently, some of my clients have needed year-end reports that share evaluation findings ( Intention , Adoption , and Impact ) in a single dashboard. I thought that sharing this new year-end dashboard with you was an excellent topic for my final blog of 2011. When designing the new dashboard I set the following requirements:
Recently a client asked for a simple way of using the dashboard concept to share Level 1 evaluation data to her leadership training facilitators. A dashboard is a report to (in this case) facilitators that provides an at-a-glance perspective on their results and any comments. A good dashboard should facilitate discussion by highlighting metric status points, encouraging management by exception, where deviations from the norm become the focal points of discussion.
Below is a chart from the dashboard. What is way cool is that you can use Predictive Evaluation with these data. Simply set a percentage of acceptable responses as the success gate. For this example, a success gate could be 90% of the responses would be “Stronger Agree” or “Agree”. As you can see the question The instructor was easy to learn from met the success gate. The question The instructor was well prepared did not meet the 90% success gate. When results fall below the predicted metric (90%) then, as warranted, corrective actions can be put into place.
There are many times where we as evaluators, trainers, and HR professionals need to convey training evaluation findings. Often we spend hours authoring a detailed report making sure every word is just so. In fact the only people who read these reports are us. Our business partners don’t have the time or the desire to read an 18-page report with an appendix and glossary of terms.
In my Predictive Evaluation model we share our findings using the dashboard concept. The dashboard is a report to senior management that provides an at-a-glance perspective on the current status of a course in the context of predetermined metrics for that program (Intention, Adoption, or Impact). Good dashboards are simple, short, and do not require you to interpret them.