Training evaluation within the federal government

Within the federal government, there has been a paradigm shift in thinking and collaboration in regards to training and evaluation. Departments and agencies are being asked to manage for better results based on the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, the President's Management Agenda of 2002, and more recently the Open Government Directive of 2009. Research that has been conducted within the federal government describing the use of training evaluation models is limited within its scope and context. To date there is little empirical evidence that defines exactly how programs are evaluated and at what level. This research study attempts to describe current training evaluation practices within the federal government, how current evaluation processes differ from Phillips's ROI Methodology and barriers to implementing such processes and evaluation of those processes.