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Griffin, Richard – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This article seeks to review the current state of workplace learning evaluation, to set out the rationale for evaluation along with the barriers that practitioners face when seeking to assess the effectiveness of training and development. Finally, it aims to propose a scientifically robust and practitioner friendly approach to evaluation.…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Systems Approach, Measurement, Evaluation Methods
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Praslova, Ludmila – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Assessment of educational effectiveness provides vitally important feedback to Institutions of Higher Education. It also provides important information to external stakeholders, such as prospective students, parents, governmental and local regulatory entities, professional and regional accrediting organizations, and representatives of the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Objectives
Masterton, Pauline M. – Performance and Instruction, 1984
Presents an activities assessment model based on Schumacher's concept of appropriate technology for assessing results of nonformal staff training activities. This model includes identifying training purposes, matching needs to capability levels, choosing source persons to judge student achievement, defining evidence and indicators, generating…
Descriptors: Achievement, Course Evaluation, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Carlisle, Kenneth E. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1983
Presents a process definition of task analysis and discusses how various techniques of analysis--breaking the task into its constituent elements, determining the relationship between these elements, and restructuring for performance and instruction--relate to this perspective. Two decision tables, a master design chart, and 28 references are…
Descriptors: Definitions, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement
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Robertson, Raymond – Performance Improvement, 1999
Examines the integration of a systematic in-house certification framework and outlines an evaluation model to validate and justify certification as a performance management tool of value to organizations and individuals. Discusses the six elements of effective competency certification programs: competency analysis; training for certification;…
Descriptors: Certification, Evaluation Methods, Management Systems, Organizational Development
CRAWFORD, MEREDITH P. – 1967
THE KEY CONCEPTS OF SYSTEM AND SIMULATION AS THEY ARE APPLIED TO TRAINING AND EDUCATION ARE DISCUSSED. THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MACHINE-ASCENDANT SYSTEMS THAT FACILITATE THE ORDERLY DESIGN PROCESS OF TRAINING SIMULATORS ARE PRESENTED--(1) PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM AND LIMITS OF ACCEPTABLE HUMAN BEHAVIOR, (2) RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Education, Evaluation Methods, Human Factors Engineering
Goodluck, Charlotte Tsoi – 1990
This training manual demonstrates the utilization of two family assessment tools with American Indian rehabilitation clients. The manual begins with an overview of general systems theory, family systems theory, and family assessment theory. The genogram is then defined as a type of family tree covering at least three generations, offering a map of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Communication Skills, Diagrams, Disabilities
Brethower, Karen S.; Rummler, Geary A. – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Presents general systems models (ballistic system, guided system, and adaptive system) and an evaluation matrix to help in examining training evaluation alternatives and in deciding what evaluation is appropriate. Includes some guidelines for conducting evaluation studies using four designs (control group, reversal, multiple baseline, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Dunn, Dennis J. – 1971
Intended as a guide for potential purchase of work evaluation systems, the document compares three that are currently available: The Jewish Evaluation and Vocational Services (JEVS) System, the Singer/Graflex System, and the Testing, Orientation and Work Evaluation in Rehabilitation (TOWER) System. Manuals and related published materials for each…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Job Development
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1974
The methods, procedures, and results of an interview survey into reactions of user personnel to the Air Force Instructional System Development (ISD) system are reported. Training evaluation, student measurement, and training manager/instructor personnel were interviewed. All groups regarded the ISD procedures favorably, but some problems…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Development, Educational Diagnosis
Daley, Glenn A.; Levy, Dina G.; Kaganoff, Tessa; Augustine, Catherine A.; Benjamin, Roger; Bikson, Tora K.; Gates, Susan M.; Moini, Joy S. – 2003
A study was conducted to develop tools for describing and evaluating external governance in the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) multiorganizational system of education, training, and professional development. An exploratory conceptual framework and taxonomy for understanding external governance in the DoD context was developed, and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Education, Audits (Verification), Educational Administration
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems