Donald Kirkpatrick, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Donald Kirkpatrick

American academic

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1924

Date of Death: 09-May-2014

Profession: writer, economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Donald Kirkpatrick (March 15, 1924 – May 9, 2014) was Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States and a past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
He is best known for creating a highly influential 'four level' model for training course evaluation, which served as the subject of his Ph.D.
dissertation in 1954.
Kirkpatrick's ideas were published to a broader audience in 1959 in a series of articles in the US Training and Development Journal, but they are better known from a book he published in 1994 entitled Evaluating Training Programs.
Other books that he has written on training evaluation include Transferring Learning to Behavior and Implementing the Four Levels.