Using Excel for Basic Learning Analytics

Webinar Description:

Talent development professionals are increasingly asked to use and provide data to other business stakeholders. Business leaders want to see the ROI of their organizations’ talent development efforts. Learning analytics is a way to assess the effectiveness of individual training programs and organizational curricula. While many talent development professionals are seasoned designers of learning they may not be as confident in their ability to use data to evaluate their programs. This session is designed as an introduction to some basic statistical analyses in Excel.

During this session, participants will:

-Understand the importance of data collection processes

-Learn some common statistics used in learning analytics

-Practice using Microsoft Excel to analyze some basic datasets for descriptive statistics, correlations, and t-tests.

About the Presenters:

Dr. Sy Islam has over 10 years of experience in a variety of corporate, academic, and applied settings. He completed his Bachelor’s in Economics from Rutgers University, his MBA in Human Resource Management and a Master’s of Arts in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He completed his PhD in Applied Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University. Sy has served in management, consultant and research roles in a variety of organizations. He is an Associate Professor of Industrial Organizational Psychology at Farmingdale State College. In addition to his role as a professor, he is a co-founder and a Vice President of Consulting with Talent Metrics. In his role at Talent Metrics, he collaborates with organizations through consulting engagements in his areas of expertise (training and development, selection, survey design, performance management, and team building). He is a passionate advocate for the fields of I-O Psychology and training. He currently serves as the Vice-President of Programming for the Long Island Chapter of the Association for Talent Development. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the People Science Special Interest Group for ATD NYC Sy has delivered presentations for I-O Shaken and Stirred and Disrupt HR Long Island and won the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Scientist-Practitioner Presidential Recognition Award for his focus on science driven practices in training and talent development.

Thomas DePatie is an industrial-organizational psychology researcher, instructor, consultant, and current PhD student at Hofstra University. His research interests center around recruitment, focusing on applicant decision-making and person-organization fit. As a consultant, Thomas has worked on projects for clients ranging from small cities to the Fortune 500 regarding job analysis, competency modeling, program evaluation, 360-feedback, and organizational surveys. He earned his Master of Science in Management from the University of Florida, where he worked as an Organizational Behavior Research Assistant and his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Florida State University. Thomas is the Vice-President of the PhDs in Applied Organizational Psychology Club at Hofstra.