How to Evaluate Instructional Materials

Evaluating instructional materials to ensure training program effectiveness is important to make certain the instructional materials and thus the training, are effective and a worthwhile investment. This Infoline shows you how to evaluate training to ensure high-quality instructional materials add value by supporting the organization's strategy implementation, are delivered in a way that maximizes the potential to achieve business results, are structured to foster learners' ability to immediately apply what they learn to their work, explain why it is in learners' best interest to learn and set expectations about what will happen during and after training, contain content and activities that mirror the job as closely as possible, and finally, are instructionally sound and achieve results on the job.