Needs Assessment and Learning & Transfer of Training
This week covers the needs assessment process, the various levels, approaches, and issues. It discusses the process used to determine whether training is necessary. Needs assessment includes analyzing the organization, people, and tasks involved.
This week also discusses learning and transfer of training theories and their implications for creating an environment that will help trainees learn the desired outcomes from training and use them on their jobs. Major theories of learning and motivation are presented and their applicability to and implications for training are discussed. Goal orientation and performance orientation are explained in the chapter. The basic learning strategies of rehearsal, organizing, and elaboration are discussed. Learning processes are described as well as the implications of these processes for instruction.
Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter Three you should be able to
- Discuss the role of organization analysis, person analysis, and task analysis in needs assessment.
- Identify different methods used in needs assessment and identify the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
After reading Chapter Four you should be able to:
- Explain the implications of learning theory for instructional design.
- Incorporate adult learning theory into the design of a training program.
- Write a complete learning objective
Key Concepts
- Needs Assessment
- Organizational, Person, and Task Analyses
- Subject Matter Expert
- Focus Groups
- Learning
- Transfer of Training
- Reinforcement Theory
- Adult Learning Theory
- Fidelity
- Near Transfer
- Learning Objective
Question 1
Write a sample instructional/learning objective using all the components of a good objective. How would this instructional objective help learning to occur?
Question 2
Needs assessment includes organization, person and task analysis. Which one of these analyses do you believe is most important? Which is least important? Why?
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