Human Capital MBA

Delivering Training and Measuring What Actually Changes: Learning Transfer and the Kirkpatrick Model Under Scrutiny

Why the classroom-versus-e-learning debate is usually the wrong question, what Baldwin and Ford's 1988 transfer-of-training model says actually determines whether a skill survives contact with the job, why the popular "only 10% of training transfers" statistic has no study behind it while the real survey data still shows a serious decline, and why Kirkpatrick's four-level model remains the industry standard despite three decades of research finding little support for the causal chain most people assume connects its levels.

4 Nov 2026 · 29 min read