Presents background information about terminology, the extent of corporate commitment to training, and the trainer's role before dealing with programs to train trainers. Recommended are training programs for trainers that provide multiple opportunities for interacting with other people under both simulated and real conditions. (Author/MER)

Considers the need of factory workers for support in rapidly changing tasks and suggests that electronic performance support systems can reduce training time, can be updated many times as procedures change, and can allow those with relevant manufacturing expertise to create electronic procedures that support shop floor workers more effectively.…

Although postmodernism suggests multiple realities, the predominant view of workplace learning is that realities are explainable in terms of competency-based standards, uniform syllabi, and narrow beliefs about how learning should be managed and measured. These practices are linked with image, market share, power, and control in enterprises. (SK)

This study sought to determine the extent to which technical training utilizes accepted evaluation techniques. Results showed that technical training evaluation practices were essentially the same as those reported for training in general and suggests the need for a new research agenda on organizational training decisions-making processes.…

Explains the ENRICH approach to learning that merges theory and practice for industrial settings. Incorporates learning theories at the individual, group, and organizational level for knowledge construction and discusses four types of learning: reflection in action with semantically related resources, domain construction, community of practice…

Discussion of training effectiveness measurement highlights a study that investigated the extent to which trainees' perceptions of the applicability of what they learned, gathered immediately after training, can predict perceptions of actual application of the training six months after they return to the job. Considers whether support affected the…

Using a representative employer-employee level dataset, this paper answers four questions: (1) What characterises employer provided training in Norway? (2) What characterises firms that invest heavily in employer provided training? (3) Is it the same firms that invest in employer provided all the time? (4) Has the level of employer provided…

This article presents the results of a survey study of secondary students' perceptions of useful and challenging characteristics of Web-based learning environments. Data were collected using a modified version of a questionnaire from earlier studies. More specifically, the author focuses on what Web-based learning looks like for secondary…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to look closely at the development of a European Credit Transfer System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET). The European Commission, together with the member States, are working on it and several pilot projects have been initiated within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission.…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the development of a European architecture of vocational education and promote an alternative proposal. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the result of discussions of researchers in the Institut Technik und Bildung on a European Qualification Framework. Findings: The paper provides an…

Professional development in family-centred services was given to professionals supporting children with disabilities and their families with the purpose to influence ways to perform working tasks. Is it possible to change ways of working through in-service training? In order to find answers to that question perceptions of in-service training at…

This booklet examines the training required by staff employed in housekeeping departments in the hotel and catering industry. It details specifications of particular tasks--baths/cloakrooms; service pantries and utility rooms; beds; furniture/fittings; floors/walls and ceilings; carpets/upholstery/soft furnishings; linen handling; linen room work;…

Following a discussion of the history of the apprenticeship system, the present system and its drawbacks are described. The future of the apprenticeship system in relation to technological, social, and industrial changes is discussed. The type of training that industry must provide in the next 30 years is described. (DB)