How to Evaluate Informal Learning

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Saul Carliner

With different questions guiding evaluation and without formal objectives and criterion-referenced tests, how do training and development professionals evaluate informal learning? More »

Fundamentals of Standard Setting

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Melissa Fein

Standard setting, in the context of criterion-referenced test development, describes the process used to determine the thresholds of minimally acceptable performance levels. More »

Building a Tipping Point for Results-Based Learning

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Holly Burkett

In the world of physics, a tipping point is considered the point at which an object is displaced from a state of stable equilibrium into a new, different state. In sociology, a tipping point refers to an event in which a previously rare phenomenon becomes dramatical... More »

Draw Out Results!

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Brownell Landrum

In Latin educare to educate means to draw out. But it seems as if education and training are often more focused on a top-down teaching approach where information is disseminated, than a true drawing-out process in which participants discover the learning through a proce... More »