Category: Training

Faded Feedback – Just a Fad?

Topic: Feedback, Training Publication: Human Performance Article: Faded versus increasing feedback, task variability trajectories, and transfer of training. Author: J.S. Goodman, R.E. Wood Featured by: Benjamin Granger In training situations, immediate, specific, and frequent feedback to the learner is often prescribed  by the experts. However, there is evidence that this “high guidance” feedback may ultimately

How to Make an Active Learning Intervention Effective

Topic: Training Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article:  Active learning: Effects of core training design elements on self-regulatory processes, learning, and adaptability. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Current thinking about how employees should be trained has changed dramatically.  Instead of trainees being passive recipients of information, organizations are now employing active learning elements into their training programs. In a recent JAP article, Bell and Kozlowski (2008) took a closer