Table 1 Kirkpatrick’s Framework
Key Outcomes | Kirkpatrick Evaluation Levels |
|---|---|
Outcomes | Descriptor |
1. Reaction | Participant’s views on the learning experience, its organization, presentation |
2a. Learning/change in attitudes | Changes in attitudes or perceptions among participant groups towards teaching and learning |
2b. Learning/Modification of Knowledge or skills | For knowledge, this relates to acquisition of concepts, procedures and principles; for skills, this relates to the acquisition of thinking/problem solving, psychomotor, and social skills |
3. Learning/Behavioral Change | The transfer of learning to the workplace (i.e. surgical practice) or willingness of learners to apply new knowledge and skills. |
4.a Change in the system/organizational practice | Wider changes in the organization, attributable to the practice of MP |
4b Changes among learners | Changes in healthcare learning performance as a result of training activities |
4c Benefits to patients/ communities | Benefits to patients/wider public/communities as a result of faculty development |