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Tucker, Dana – Performance Improvement, 2012
This is a retrospective analysis of the performance of a large training program in a combat environment looked at through the lens of human performance technology. Van Tiem, Moseley, and Dessinger's performance improvement/HPT model and strategic, operational, and tactical levels are used to describe effective and ineffective applications of human…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Police Education, Intervention, Organizational Development
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Schaefer, Lee; Long, Julie S.; Clandinin, D. Jean – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
In this paper, we consider scholarly work on early career teacher attrition, and retention, from 1999 to 2010. Much of the literature has framed attrition as either a problem associated with individual factors (e.g., burnout), or a problem associated with contextual factors (e.g., support and salary). Some recent conceptualizations consider early…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Beginning Teachers, Literature Reviews
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Brownell, Sara E.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
A substantial body of literature has highlighted many factors that impede faculty change, the most common of which are a lack of training, time, and incentives. However, there may be other barriers--unacknowledged and unexamined barriers--that might prove to be equally important. In particular, the tensions between a scientist's professional…
Descriptors: Biology, Professional Recognition, Educational Change, Barriers
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Margolis, Jason; Huggins, Kristin Shawn – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
This article examines teacher leader role development and definition by looking at one emergent model of distributed leadership: the hybrid teacher leader (HTL). HTLs are teachers whose official schedule includes both teaching K-12 students and leading teachers in some capacity. Participants included six HTLs across four school districts over 2…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Elementary Secondary Education, Definitions, Teacher Leadership
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Craver, Gerald A.; Burkett, Amy K. – Qualitative Report, 2012
Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) perform an important role in the long-term care system because they provide the majority of paid care to nursing facility residents. Unfortunately, annual CNA turnover often exceeds 100 percent nationally. Many factors account for this, including stressful working conditions, low pay, and limited benefits. The…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Medical Services, Improvement Programs, Focus Groups
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Shurville, Simon; Browne, Tom; Whitaker, Marian – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: Educational technologists make significant contributions to the development, organisational embedding and service provision of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environments, which are key enablers for mass access to flexible higher education (HE). Given the increasing centrality of this role, it is advocated that institutions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Human Resources, Literature Reviews
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Stone, Deborah L.; Villachica, Steven W. – Performance Improvement, 1997
Describes trends affecting both knowledge workers and the performance technologists who support them. Five strategies are suggested for providing performance support: (1) address systems-level issues; (2) align performance technology efforts with technological imperatives; (3) provide information filters; (4) provide custom tools; and (5) make…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Performance, Management Information Systems, Organizational Development
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Gayeski, Diane – Performance Improvement, 1997
Discusses how to improve an organization's training and communications system, both philosophically and technically, and highlights activities conducive to a rewired communication system. Lists online sources on the topic and freeware packages that can be downloaded, and includes job aid forms designed to be copied and posted in the organization.…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Software, Improvement, Information Dissemination