Training Evaluation Form
A Kirkpatrick-ready evaluation pack: 7 minutes on the day, 3 at day 30
A satisfaction survey asks if people liked the day. This pack asks what changed, what stayed, and what the next run should fix — and produces a report a manager can forward as-is.
WorkshopSkill · Training Evaluation Form — Slide Deck · CC BY 4.0The sponsor’s real question was never
“did they enjoy it?”
So why does every report answer that one?
WorkshopSkill · Training Evaluation Form — Slide Deck · CC BY 4.0The four levels, honestly mapped
- L1 Reaction: eight grouped rows — four content, three delivery, one overall.
- L2 Learning: three narrow confidence self-reports — honest about being a proxy.
- L3 Behavior: the day-30 follow-up, three questions by email.
- L4 Results: NOT covered. Be suspicious of any form that claims it.
Why eight reaction rows, grouped
- Content: relevance, depth, instructor, materials. Delivery: exercises, logistics, workload. Then overall.
- In corporate training, delivery rows matter as much as content —
- a well-taught course with a broken sign-up flow gets scored like a bad course.
The keep/change pair
- “What worked so well it should stay exactly as it is?” — protects the good parts from fix-happy redesigns.
- “What should change in the next run?” — the fix list in participants’ own words.
- For repeat programs this pair is worth more than every rating combined. Ratings locate; keep/change tells you what to do.
Day 30: the other half of the form
- Three questions, sent 30 days later: used-it frequency, what helped or blocked, what support would make it stick.
- Expect a third of the in-room response rate — that is normal, and a 30% behavior count beats a 90% satisfaction mean.
- Schedule the email the same day you run the training, before you forget who was in the room.
The 60-second read
1. Overall above 4.0 but relevance under 3.5? Enjoyable, aimed at the wrong work.
2. Delivery rows under 3.0 while content rides high? Fix the administration, not the course.
3. Day-30 behavior count above zero? The training is alive. Zero: it was an event.
WorkshopSkill · Training Evaluation Form — Slide Deck · CC BY 4.0Reaction items describe the day.
Only the day-30 answers describe the work.
Report them separately — never averaged together.
WorkshopSkill · Training Evaluation Form — Slide Deck · CC BY 4.0The report a manager can forward
- Item means + confidence set + behavior counts + the keep/change lists — one page.
- One honest line worth more than a chart: “self-report, no baseline” when there is no baseline.
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Print the deck · protect the day-30 email · write the one-pager
Level 1 through 3 with a form and an inbox. Level 4 needs more than paper — and this pack says so.
WorkshopSkill · Training Evaluation Form — Slide Deck · CC BY 4.0Take this folder with you
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