Sub-Badge: Evaluate Instructional and Non-Instructional Interventions

Criteria: Evidence of implementing a summative evaluation plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction and decide whether to continue to use instruction.

Artifact: Evaluation Plan

For the competency, “Implement summative evaluation plans,” I have selected an evaluation plan I created with a partner in class. The evaluation plan we made was for training for a company that leased buildings. At the time, the company had had some issues involving safety proceedures. My partner was in the middle of revising the safety training and wanted to come up with a solid evaluation plan that would measure if her new training program was successful. Using the information she was collecting, we devised an extensive evaluation plan.

Although I had done assessments to measure what students were learning and created surveys for training, I never developed an evaluation plan to outline how to go about it. We would use the knowledge checks to measure how students did for that particular course, and we would use the surveys to show how the students felt about the course and what we could do to improve. While doing this evaluation plan, I received a perspective that I didn’t necessarily understand before. By doing this plan, I could give the stakeholders a broader overview of levels 1-4 of the evaluation process.

         This evaluation helped my partner and me in several ways. She was able to give her stakeholders a holistic picture of how she was going to use the knowledge checks and surveys to measure whether the training was improving safety procedures. It also taught me how to use the Kirkpatrick model. After this project, I created an evaluation plan for the training project I was working on.