Topic 1
The process of acquiring general knowledge and information that usually results in a broadening of the responses individuals are likely to make.
What is education
A collaborative learning process that involves bringing a set of people together to find solutions to real problems confronting their organization.
what is Action Learning
A learning experience that combines both work and education. Students work as employees in an organization under the joint direction of their supervisors and their academic instructors.
what is Cooperative Education
The process that occurs when people know their behavior is being observed and behave differently as a result of being evaluated.
what is Hawthorne Effect
The final stage of the role transition process in which people are integrated into the new role.
what is Assimilation
Part of the training-needs analysis that examines the abilities of individual employees to identify deficiencies in their performances.
what is Individual, or Personnel Analysis
A training technique in which trainees observe others performing the skills to be learned, actively practice performing the skills, and receive feedback on their performance.
what is Behavioral Modeling
A visual representation of a micro-credential that contains metadata verifying the badge holder’s name, when and how the badge was earned, and the skills and knowledge required to earn it.
what is Digital Badges
The historical events occurring between the pretest and post-test of a research design that provide competing explanations for any changes that are observed.
what is History
A point in a person's career when the probability of the person moving up the organizational ladder is very low.
what is Career Plateau
An examination of the kinds of problems the organization is experiencing and where they are located in the organization. An organizational analysis is part of a training-needs analysis, which examines organizational-effectiveness indices, personnel succession, and the organizational climate.
what is Organizational Analysis
Scheduling shorter training sessions that are distributed over time rather than one long session.
what is Distributed
A process for learning new behaviors in which the trainee imitates the behavior of a model.
Modeling
A time-series design that examines the effects of a training program by assessing whether performance measures after training are greater than the baseline measures before training.
what is Multiple-baseline Design
Training programs that focus on creating more tolerant attitudes toward people regardless of race, color, or gender.
what is Diversity Training
Lists the different tasks an employee performs and identifies the kinds of skills and behaviors required to perform them.
what is Task Analysis
Graphs illustrating the number of correct responses or the percentage of correct responses during successive learning trials.
what is Learning Curves
Practicing a response or skill to the point that it is performed almost automatically with minimal thought or hesitation.
what is Overlearning
An evaluation strategy that compares improvement on relevant questions to scores on questions that are irrelevant to the content of the training to assess the benefit of the training.
what is Internal Reference Strategy (IRS)
An employee who is assigned to work in a foreign country.
what is expatriate
A process of learning characterized by the acquisition of specific information or skills. Training typically refers to the acquisition of specific skills or knowledge that reduce the variability in the responses of trainees.
Training
Physical actions or skills that an individual acquires through practice.
what is motor response
Trainees have overlearned a skill and performance becomes rapid and accurate and can be performed with minimum attention to the task.
what is Procedural Knowledge
A research design in which participants are randomly assigned to four training groups. Only two groups participate in training.
what is Solomon Four-group Design
A recruiting strategy that involves telling applicants both the favorable and unfavorable aspects of the job so they have a more realistic understanding of it and can make an informed decision.
what is Realistic Job Previews