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Donald L Kirkpatrick first published his ideas on evaluating learning in 1959 in a series of articles in the US Training and Development Journal. The articles were subsequently included in his book Evaluating Training Programs (originally published in 1975; I have the 2006 edition).

In this text he outlined and further developed his theories on evaluating culminating in the Four-Level Model, arguably the most widely used and popular approach for the evaluation of training and learning. Kirkpatrick’s Four-level model is now considered an industry standard across the HR and training communities (see Table 1.1).

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