This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kirkpatrick Four Levels. In the early 1950s, I was teaching supervisory development courses at the University of Wisconsin Management Institute. I decided to pursue a PhD and chose to write a practical dissertation on evaluating the programs that I was teaching.
The first objective of my dissertation research was to measure the reaction (Level 1) of the supervisors who attended the training programs. It was important that they went back to the
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