Enhancing learning in training and adult education

This book picks up where the well-received Futurework (1994) left off. It builds a strong case for workplace trainers treating their work as research. The nine chapters are designed to prepare readers to become workplace consultants. The authors present their workplace training program of research as well as a mastery learning model. By presenting ideas from instructional psychology, cognitive science, mastery learning, and performance based assessments, and then relating these findings to the workplace, the authors offer a new way to look at learning in the workplace. Considerable focus is given to the need to enhance diversity within workplace settings. Suggested readings are included with each chapter.

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The purpose of this welcome addition to the area of adult education and training, stated in the preface, is "to build a strong case for the notion that workplace training would be well served if they [trainers] viewed their work as research." Strongly rooted in behavioralist psychology, the authors draw heavily on the writings of Skinner, Thorndike, Bandura, Glasser, Brown, and many others. A number of common themes are addressed, including outcome-based education, mastery learning techniques, and practitioners' need to take a test-train-test hypothesis approach to work-related issues in designing training programs. Training applications paradigms are presented throughout, and most of the nine chapters end with the sections "Terms to Know," "Questions to Consider," and "Suggested Readings." Well researched and well written, this book should be of interest to professionals and practitioners in adult education and to advanced graduate students and higher education faculty and researchers. W. C. Hine; Eastern Illinois University

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