ASTDBR Monthly Meeting: How Do Your Programs Measure Up?

How Do Your Programs Measure Up? Ways to Assess Learning Transfer and Application in the Classroom and Beyond

Knowing our programs are on target and that participants are taking away the necessary information has become essential as training budgets have tightened and resources have been stretched.  In spite of the challenges often associated with implementing program evaluation and training metrics in our workplaces, it is becoming more important to show how training is impacting the organization as a whole. The days of measuring training effectiveness and learning transfer by tallying attendance rosters and listing the courses provided during the quarter or fiscal year are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Join this session to discuss techniques and tips to assess learning transfer and application in the classroom and beyond.

In this session, you will:

• Review multiple methods to assess learning transfer in the classroom
• Review multiple methods to assess learning application on the job
• Discuss ways to forecast learning assessment and application using the Phillips evaluation model

Presenter:

Elizabeth Beckham, MS, CKM
Safety Training Manager
Turner Industries Group, LLC

Elizabeth Beckham is a Safety Training Manager for the corporate training team at Turner Industries Group in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Elizabeth has more than 14 years of learning and development experience across multiple industries: hospitality, academia, gaming, healthcare, and petrochemical.  She earned a bachelor’s degree in software engineering technology, magna cum laude, a master’s degree in workforce training and development, and a learning professional certificate from the Jack and Patti Phillips Workforce Learning and Performance Institute at the University of Southern Mississippi. Since that time, Elizabeth also completed the requirements to become a Certified Occupational Safety Specialist, KMPro® Certified Knowledge Manager, and a National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) Master Trainer.  Her interests include use of technology in the workplace and home, psychology, cooking, and photography.  She can be contacted at enbeckham@hotmail.com.