Vocabulary
Retrieval opportunities that can help the learner’s brain consider training information as important and help retain it
What is a Booster?
An example of Massed Practice vs Spaced Practice
What is cramming for an exam for 4 hours the day before vs spending 30 minutes a day for a week before the exam?
The 3 parts of an effective objective statement
What is outcome, criteria, and conditions?
The model that Blume et al. developed
What is the Dynamic Transfer Model (DTM)?
The extent to which trainees exhibit new behaviors on the job in response to settings, people, and situations that differ from those presented during training
What is generalization?
All tasks or objectives are practiced at the same time
What is Whole Practice?
An example of an open skill (linked to more general learning principles)
An obstacle in the work environment that inhibits transfer of training
What is a work condition obstacle, lack of peer support, or lack of management support?
The purpose of creating the Dynamic Transfer Model
What is to provide a more comprehensive view of the training transfer process as it unfolds over time?
One way to increase retention
What is
1. Increasing the amount of task repetitions
2. Testing during training
3. Spaced practice
4. Incorporating variety of equipment worked on during training?
Continuing to practice even after trainee can perform task
What is overlearning?
An example of theory of identical elements
What is hostage situation training or airline pilot simulators?
2 descriptions that practice for training has to be
What is
1. be relevant to training objectives
2. involve the trainee actively
3. include overlearning (repetition)
4. take appropriate amount of time
5. include appropriate amount of material?
2 types of characteristics that will affect how likely trainees are to transfer training at each point in time
What are individual characteristics (e.g., personality traits) and situational characteristics (e.g., supervisor expectations)?
Decreases in the use of trained skills on the job that could be due to inadequate opportunity to exhibit the knowledge, skills, or trained behaviors, a decrease in motivation to use the skills, or a lack of rewards.
What is skill decay?
Training objectives that are linked to learning specific skills that are to be identically produced by the trainee on their job
An example of Error Management
A theory that emphasizes important features or general principles that can be used to complete a task or solve a problem (improv comedy example)
What is Stimulus Generalization Approach?
A way the DTM differs from existing models
What is looks at training transfer as it unfolds over time instead of at a single point in time or focuses on performance as a work behavior rather than a training outcome?
The purpose of the article
What is to synthesize what we already know (generalization of knowledge, skills, and behaviors learned in training and the retention of that learning) and highlight areas where there are gaps in our knowledge?
Trainee uses previously learned, less effective capabilities instead of trying to apply what they just learned
What are lapses?
What is "Reduce product defects from 10% to 7%, without increasing spending"?
One of the 4 learning styles
What is divergers, assimilators, convergers, or accommodators?
The 3 linkages Blume et al. developed and examined that occur during the process of transfer attempts
What is intentions to transfer, the initial attempts to utilize training, and the integration of feedback received from the transfer attempt?
This is viewed skeptically despite training investment at the organizational level of analysis is viewed so positively
What is individual training initiatives?