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Completing the Dissertation:
Ph.D. Graduates Advice to Students for Completing the Dissertation Be very organized and disciplined. Create a schedule much like a course syllabus outlining what you will be working on every week and approach the dissertation like it is a course. President of Clarion University, Dr. Karen M. Whitney Select a topic of great interest to you and others in the field. Focus all of your papers and research during the time that you are taking classes on that topic to the extent that you can. Select a chair who has an interest in your topic. Stay away from departmental or university politics. Find a buddy/partner who can help keep you on track with completion. Devote some time every week to researc...
Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace, Instructional Design and Training Delivery
With the contributions from leading national and international scholars and practitioners, this volume provides a "state-of-the-art" look at ID, addressing the major changes that have occurred in nearly every aspect of ID in the past decade and provides both theory and "how-to" information for ID and performance improvement practitioners practitioners who must stay current in their field. This volume goes beyond other ID references in its approach: it is useful to students and practitioners at all levels; it is grounded in the most current research and theory; and it provides up-to-the-minute coverage of topics not found in any other ID book. It addresses timely topics such as cognitive task...
No Sense of Place
How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media have created new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" us. While other media experts have limited the debate to message content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which changes in media rearrange "who knows what about whom" and "who knows what compared to whom," making it impossible for...
The ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training
A follow-on to ASTD's best-selling ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals, the ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training includes more than 20 chapters written by preeminent practitioners in the learning evaluation field. This practical, how-to handbook covers best practices of learning evaluation and includes information about using technology and evaluating e-learning. Broad subject areas are evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis, and measurement and evaluation at work.
Criterion-referenced Test Development
Criterion-Referenced Test Development is designed specifically for training professionals who need to better understand how to develop criterion-referenced tests (CRTs). This important resource offers step-by-step guidance for how to make and defend Level 2 testing decisions, how to write test questions and performance scales that match jobs, and how to show that those certified as ?masters? are truly masters. A comprehensive guide to the development and use of CRTs, the book provides information about a variety of topics, including different methods of test interpretations, test construction, item formats, test scoring, reliability and validation methods, test administration, a score reporting, as well as the legal and liability issues surrounding testing. New revisions include: Illustrative real-world examples. Issues of test security. Advice on the use of test creation software. Expanded sections on performance testing. Single administration techniques for calculating reliability. Updated legal and compliance guidelines. Order the third edition of this classic and comprehensive reference guide to the theory and practice of organizational tests today.
The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership
Are you an academic leader or considering taking on a leadership position in the academy? Then this book is for you, even in an era of crisis in the highly-complex higher education sector. A one-size-fits-all leadership philosophy can not meet all the challenges and opportunities facing academic leaders. Rather, successful leaders require a range of approaches and an ample supply of tools to maximize their effectiveness. This volume takes you through a series of balancing acts, each of which helps you to tailor your leadership choices to the issue at hand.It helps leaders to identify your current strengths and comfort zone in a series of dimensions and then encourages you to move beyond those comfort zones and to develop an ever-expanding array of leadership tools and skills. The result will be greater effectiveness in your decision-making, relationships, and management.
ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals
Here's the ""must have"" reference book for anyone involved in training, human resources development, and workplace learning. Published by the most trusted name in the industry, ""The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals"" is a required tool for all learning professionals. This practical ""go to"" resource is a new contribution to the field, comprising 50+ chapters, each authored by renowned industry practitioners. The handbook offers the most up-to-date methodologies and practices covering the entire range of the training and development profession and also includes valuable worksheets and tools on a companion CD-ROM.
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Handbook of Human Performance Technology
In forty-four original chapters, leading researchers and practitioners offer a state-of-the-art perspective on the evolving field of Human Performance Technology (HPT)--a study of technologies designed to enhance human performance and capabilities in the workplace. Tracing the historical roots of HPT, this book explains its theoretical underpinnings, and unveils an array of models and techniques that have proven effective in enhancing individual and organizational performance.
Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs
The third edition of this bestselling book guides you through a proven, results-based approach to calculating the return on investment in training and performance improvement programs. The ROI Methodology described in the book has evolved into the most used evaluation system in the world. Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Jack J. Phillips, and Klaas Toes present the ROI Methodology, a user-friendly approach to showing and proving the value of programs, projects, and initiatives. Based on over 40 years of development and refinement, it is a process that meets the demands currently facing training and performance improvement functions. This third edition includes chapters thoroughly detailing the app...
