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Performance Improvement Based on Results: Is Our Field Interested in Adding Value?
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Guerra, Ingrid J. – Performance Improvement, 2001
Discussion of human performance technology and a shift from emphasizing training to emphasizing performance focuses on a review of articles from "Performance Improvement". Results show most articles were focused on processes and particular interventions in business and industry and did not include evaluation that addressed added societal…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Journal Articles, Performance Technology
A Performance Technology Approach to Improving Evaluation.
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Rohrer-Murphy, Lucia; Moller, Leslie; Benscoter, Bud – Performance Improvement, 1997
Discusses the evaluation component of instructional design, suggests a performance technology approach to improve evaluation, and describes the Rummler-Brache Organizational Alignment Model that provides guidelines for systematically identifying the key variables when reorganizing training toward more appropriate evaluation. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Instructional Design
Re-Evaluating Evaluation.
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Piskurich, George M. – Performance Improvement, 1997
Discusses the increasing emphasis on evaluation in the fields of training and performance improvement. Suggests considering why the evaluation is being done, what is being evaluated, and how the data will be used to make it more useful. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Problems
The Long and Winding Path (from Instructional Design to Performance Technology).
Carr, Clay; Totzke, Larry – Performance and Instruction, 1995
Presents a case study based on experiences at Amway Corporation that explains how the Human Resources Development Department progressed from providing training to providing a broader range of human performance technology interventions. Strategic planning is described, including identifying incentives and required competencies, providing for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competence, Corporations, Evaluation Methods
DesignStation 2000: Imagining Future Realities in Learning Systems Design.
Gayeski, Diane M., Ed. – Educational Technology, 1995
Describes "DesignStation 2000," a software and hardware workbench for laptop computers for the design of learning systems that includes capabilities for needs analysis; client presentation and proposal generation; rapid prototyping of interactive media projects; collaboration and project tracking; assessment of results; and adding to a…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Cooperation, Databases, Evaluation Methods
The Shoemaker's Gap.
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Deterline, William – Performance Improvement, 1997
Discussion of human performance technology focuses on training and performance improvement. Highlights include performance maintenance; environmental influences that can affect performance; and the evolving role of human performance technology, including feedback, evaluation, and design efforts. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Improvement
A Top Level Analysis of Training Management Functions.
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Ackerson, Jack – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1995
Discusses how to conduct a top-level analysis of training management functions to identify problems within a training system resulting from rapid growth, the acquisition of new departments, or mergers. The data gathering process and analyses are explained, training management functions and activities are described, and root causes and solutions…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training
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
Performance Improvement.
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1996
This document contains four papers presented at a symposium on performance improvement moderated by Edward Schorer at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) "The Organizational Ecology of Ethical Problems: International Case Studies in the Light of HPT [Human Performance Technology]" (Peter J. Dean,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality
Academy of Human Resource Development Conference Proceedings (Oak Brook, Illinois, March 4-8, 1998).
Torraco, Richard J., Ed. – 1998
These proceedings begin with the schedule, conference committee membership lists, and detailed agenda of the 1998 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development, which explored the relationship between learning and performance. Presented next are papers grouped by the conference's 35 symposium topics, which are as follows: university…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Cognitive Style