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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. ” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety

The AI Alignment Forum

We think this adversarial style of evaluation and iteration is necessary to ensure an AI system has a low probability of catastrophic failure. Wed like to support more such evaluations, especially on scalable oversight protocols like AI debate. and Which rules are LLM agents happy to break, and which are they more committed to? .

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Google at ICLR 2023

Google Research AI blog

If you’re registered for ICLR 2023, we hope you’ll visit the Google booth to learn more about the exciting work we’re doing across topics spanning representation and reinforcement learning, theory and optimization, social impact, safety and privacy, and applications from generative AI to speech and robotics.

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The Theoretical Reward Learning Research Agenda: Introduction and Motivation

The AI Alignment Forum

Some relevant criteria for evaluating a specification language include: How expressive is the language? A nave answer might be to measure their L 2 -distance. However, this is not the only option, and it is not self-evident that it is the right choice. Are there things it cannot express? How intuitive is it for humans to work with?

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Other Papers About the Theory of Reward Learning

The AI Alignment Forum

We also managed to leverage these results to produce a new method for conservative optimisation, that tells you how much (and in what way) you can optimise a proxy reward, based on the quality of that proxy (as measured by a STARC metric ), in order to be guaranteed that the true reward doesnt decrease (and thereby prevent the Goodhart drop).