Workplace education effectiveness:
Workplace Education consists of programs that are planned and delivered through business/education partnerships and provide customized work-related basic (or foundation) skills instruction to those already employed and in need of more advanced skills to maintain or advance in their jobs. The effectiveness of these programs can be evaluated on four levels, as developed by Kirkpatrick:
Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Evaluation
In the late 1950's, D.L. Kirkpatrick developed what has become one of the most popular models for evaluating workplace education programs. Kirkpatrick's system has four levels of evaluation.
Figure 1
| Level | What the Level Measures | |
| 1 | Response | Was the employee satisfied with the workplace education and did employee complete it? |
| 2 | Learning | What did the employee learn from the workplace education program? |
| 3 | Performance | How did the workplace education program affect employee performance? |
| 4 | Results | Did improvements in employee performance attributable to workplace education affect organizational performance? |