LO's and Performance Measurement LO10637

Bob Williams (100233.2266@CompuServe.COM)
21 Oct 96 21:37:56 EDT

Replying to LO10598 --

Chris Speyer asked :-

Subject: LO's and Performance Measurement LO10598

I am asking for some input from my friends out there.

My thoughts are based around the measurement of performance, as it applies
to a learning organization.

[Snip]

In a large organization, measuring learning is an extremely difficult
thing. Any thoughts on this.

---end of quote---

Hi Chris,

YOu have asked a series of questions which have interested me for some
time. I have yet to come to any particular conclusion, especially since
"learning" has so many meanings that it is difficult to have a single
framework for evaluation.

I make my living evaluating organisations and programmes, and am activein
a couple of evaluation discussion groups. Can I suggest that you
subscribe to one of them and repost your note. You may gain a better or
at least different insight from these goups. I say this because from my
perspective as an evaluator, evaluation is one of the few poorly informed
and poorly discussed topics on this LO list.

If you are US based try tracking down work by Rosie Torres and Hallie
Preskill. If you are Australian based, then the recent book by Laurie
Field and Bill Ford has the beginnings of an evaluative framework.

If you are New Zealand based (like me) then chase up the work done by WEB.

If you are Singapore based, then come along to this week-end's SIM
conference on Action Research and the learning organisation. I'll be
there and so will Bill Ford and many others.

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Cheers

Bob

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Bob Williams <100233.2266@CompuServe.COM>

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