Learning
While training refers to the acquisition of specific skills or knowledge, education is much more general and attempts to provide students with general knowledge that can be applied in many different settings.
What is the Difference Between Training and Education?
Essay descriptions of especially good or bad responses by employees to their jobs. These descriptions are useful in identifying the important dimensions of successful performance.
What are Critical Incidents?
A learning experience that combines both work and education. Students work as employees in an organization under the direction of their supervisors and academic instructors. (General)
What is Cooperative Education?
A form of programmed instruction in which the trainee interacts with a computer to learn new information and answers questions asked by the computer.
What is Computer-Assisted Instruction?
An evaluation procedure in which employees are simply placed in different categories describing their overall performance.
What is a Classification Procedure?
A form of performance evaluation bias: The tendency for an evaluator to give average ratings to all employees.
What is Central-Tendency Effect?
An evaluation procedure that requires the evaluator to classify employees according to a predetermined percentage in each category.
What is Forced Distribution?
An evaluation procedure that contains pairs of items, both sounding equally desirable, but only one item in each pair is actually descriptive of an outstanding performer.
What is Forced-Choice Technique?
A posttest-only design where data are collected only after a training program has been completed.
What is a Case Study?
The development of a sequential series of career activities that an individual might pursue during his or her career.
What is Career Pathing?
A performance evaluation method that consists of reporting how frequently certain behaviors are observed.
What are Behavioral Observation Scales (BOS)?
A form of graphic rating scales where each point along the scale is accompanied by a specific behavioral description.
What are Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales (BARS)?
A training technique in which the trainee, or apprentice, works with a skilled employee who teaches the apprentice how to perform the job.
What is an Apprenticeship?