Category: Intention Evaluation
PE Intention Goals are the planned actions that we want participants to author during training as their personal transfer plan. If training is working as designed, we want participants writing actions that drive desired adoptive behaviors back into their everyday work patterns. Developing Intention Goals is relatively easy if the course has a set of well-written, performance-based learning objectives. They refer to training outcomes that specify the information and/or skills to be mastered and what participants do to demonstrate mastery. Performance-based learning objectives manifest themselves in training in the forms of content modules and skill-practice exercises. Therefore, the path to developing Intention Goals is performance-based learning objectives, which lead to course content/learning, which leads to Intention Goals. To create Intention Goals, you review the performance-based learning objectives and the course content/learning and answer two questions:
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 I had a series of questions from one of my
Predictive Evaluation
(PE) students who was reading my
book
and preparing to start her
Predictive Evaluation Certification
. It is a conversation that gets to the heart of PE – defining what successful training is and then what to do with it. These questions are from Sue – I know she will soon be an outstanding evaluator using PE. Enjoy.
QUESTION: If the participants do not meet the percentage of acceptable goals upon completion of the course, does that mean that the goals they have written do not meet the required standard AND if not isn’t it too late to correct this once the participants have left the class?
Last week I was talking to Kathi from Wisconsin who has been employing my
Predictive Evaluation approach
. We were discussing about predicting
Intention Goals
for her technical courses. Intentions goals are the plans participants wish to achieve using the knowledge and skills they learned in. This is the first evaluation focus point, because there is little or no adoption or business impact if participants have little or no intent to use the training. Intention Evaluation involves predicting what successful goals should be and judging participant-authored goals against the prediction. If participant goals meet the success gate, those goals are labeled as acceptable. Goals that do not meet the standard are labeled as unacceptable.