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Training Transfer: Not the 10% Solution
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Farrington, Jeanne – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
Training transfer is a key concern for organizational stakeholders, training professionals, and researchers. Since Georgenson's (1982) article on transfer, his conversational gambit that only 10% of training transfers to performance on the job has been quoted often. This estimate suggests a low level of success with training programs in general,…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, On the Job Training, Context Effect, Job Performance
An Ethnostatistical Analysis of Performance Measurement
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Winiecki, Donald J. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Within the fields of human performance technology (HPT), human resources management (HRM), and management in general, performance measurement is not only foundational but considered necessary at all phases in the process of HPT. In HPT in particular, there is substantial advice literature on what measurement is, why it is essential, and (at a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Measurement Techniques, Performance Technology, Human Resources
Preface to the Special Issue on High-Risk, Critical-Skills Training Evaluation.
Cantor, Jeffrey A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1992
Summarizes the six articles included in this special issue, which discuss evaluation of human performance in critical skills occupations; strategic planning for safety in high-risk occupations; performance and training effectiveness decisions; performance indicators for training evaluation; evaluation of a nuclear training program; and a model for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Job Performance
The Use of Level Three Evaluation Data To Assess the Impact of Technology Training on Work Performance.
Okurowski, Mary Ellen; Clark, Ruth – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Discussion of information technology training focuses on an evaluative study at the Department of Defense that investigated whether new information technology training could improve job performance. Highlights include determining training effectiveness; job transfer evaluation; return on investment; use of software features; and the impact of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Information Technology
Situational and Demographic Influences on Transfer System Characteristics in Organizations
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Chen, Hsin-Chih; Holton, Elwood F., III; Bates, Reid A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
Transfer theories, which are closely related to evaluation theory, have been developed from a holistic perspective, but most of empirical transfer research has not effectively utilized holistic models to investigate transfer of learning until the late 1990s. Additionally, little has been done in examining the relationship between situational…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Holistic Approach, Models, Work Environment