Evaluation and Implementation

Evaluation and Implementation are put into place towards the end of an instructional design project, but instructional designers must carefully consider these phases early in the project as we chart a path to solve performance issues. My skills in both areas have increased throughout my coursework in the Purdue LDT program. I now feel confident in applying research-based evaluation practices to my design plans and creating a vision to disseminate the training materials I create in the future.

Formative and summative evaluations are tools completed during the development stage (formative) or after the development stage to determine the training effectiveness (summative). I demonstrated my capabilities to write an evaluation plan that contained both as part of my coursework in EDCI 528 based on the Kirkpatrick four-level model. The evaluation plan I developed was based on a real-world problem I was facing in my current role. I assumed the role of human performance consultant as I considered the needs of the organizations, available resources, and the root cause of the issue. In my future work, I will use these skills to create evaluation plans that collect feedback during the development phase and after training has been delivered to form a closed feedback loop. In future iterations, this information will guide the training design's adjustment for optimal effectiveness.   

During my coursework, I have learned the importance of communicating my plan of intervention to the project stakeholders during all phases of the ADDIE model. This could sometimes require me to draft a series of changes to an existing training product. As an ID professional, I demonstrated my ability to analyze project constraints, prioritize the criticality of each constraint, and create a vision for change while completing coursework in EDCI 672. I plan to apply these skill sets in future projects to ensure that changes I propose to a training product are founded in ID best practices, directly tied to organizational needs, and clearly communicated to the project stakeholders.