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Conference Recap
From Happiness Scales to Discovering Impact: Which Level of Evaluation is Right for You?

Dr. Maureen E. Conner, Executive Director of the JERITT Project , and a long time NASJE member, presented a hands-on workshop to assist judicial educators in identifying their clients to be evaluated, determining how to assess their information requirements, and matching those requirements with the requisite type of evaluation.
We learned the 4 types of Donald Kirkpatrick’s levels of education:

• Level 1 Reaction
• Level 2 Learning
• Level 3 Behavior
• Level 4 Results

Level 1 is your basic evaluation – providing educators with information regarding future programming. Level 2 allows the educator to identify what skills were achieved by the participants during the session; how the knowledge was used; and the strategic skills that were identified. Dr. Conner went into detail on what influences of the work climate are related to the learning experience. Level 3 shows that work climate dictates behavior change in the workplace and Level 4 which is the most difficult attempts to determine how education and training changed the organization.

Participants in this workshop were given a copy of “Conducting Impact Evaluation for Judicial Branch Educators” authored by Dr. Conner as a reference guide. This extremely useful guide identified the steps needed to conduct a successful evaluation. This workshop was attended by seasoned as well as new judicial educators and was most interactive and educationally rewarding.

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