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Evaluer la qualité des dispositifs de formations: confrontation de différentes conceptions d'évaluation des formations
Evaluating the quality of training courses: a comparison of different designs for evaluating training

Author(s): Isabelle Gillet, Daniel Gilibert
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: quality approach; training evaluation research; stakeholder perceptions; participants involvement

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to show that some designs for evaluating training are more suitable than others in a quality approach. Effectively, several practices of evaluation are incompatible. These are presented in the first section: Kirkpatrick’s fourlevel training evaluation model (Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results), Kraiger’s comprehensive model based on learning outcomes, as well as the more recent designs taking into account multiple stakeholder perceptions (Michalski & Cousins). On the basis of these works and of some original practices, we attempt to show the aspects which are the most adapted to a total quality approach.

  • Issue Year: II/2009
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 41-52
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French