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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"performance support"”.
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Performance Support And Usability:an Experimental Study Ofelectronic Performance Support Interfaces
… study evaluated the usability of two types of performance-support interfaces that were designed using informational and experiential approaches. The experiment sought to determine whether there is a relationship between usability and the informational and experiential approaches. The general …
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Live, virtual, and constructive environments for performance support
… systems become more complex, the operation and support of these systems becomes intrinsically more difficult. The U.S. Army's current procurement process relies on industry to provide embedded training and performance support tools for the systems they produce. These tools are relatively new and …
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Improving driving training with a handheld performance support system
… This thesis discusses the design of the support system and the interface of the handheld computer application.
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Electronic Performance Support Systems: Comparison Of Types Of Integration Levels On Performance Outcomes
<p>Selecting appropriate performance improvement interventions is a critical component of a comprehensive model of performance improvement. Intervention selection is an interconnected process involving analysis of an organization's environment, definition of the performance problem, and …
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The Kiosk Culture: Reconciling The Performance Support Paradox In The Postmodern Age Of Machines
… system. The technology itself bridges the performance gap, allowing a novice to accomplish the same task as an experienced professional. This shift to a self-service paradigm is completely changing the dynamics of the consumer relationship with the capitalist enterprise, resulting in what …
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Design and Development of a Performance Support Tool for the Digital Curation of Non-Textual Learning Objects
… study explored the design and development of a performance support tool to create descriptive metadata by users that are most familiar with the non-textual learning objects, yet may not have an understanding of the various metadata schemas and standards required by other institutional/knowledge …
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Designing a business reengineering information system with performance support concepts: a description of the system analysis process
… all employees, project leaders wanted to include performance support concepts into the customization of the system. The main focus of my research was investigating the major issues associated with incorporating performance support principles into a system development life-cycle model. The analysis …
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Organizational Learning Transfer To Job Performance Behavior: A Mixed-Methods Study
… only a small percentage of training resulting in performance application on the job. Copious amounts of research literature on training transfer exist, yet the problem persists. Technology and innovation have resulted in change in workplace environments; however, the learning transfer framework …
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A Case Study on How Workers in a Fast-paced Environment Go Through the Knowledge Life Cycle When Dealing with Critical Incidents
… other areas such as organizational learning, performance support, and communities of practice. Learning and performance support are among the concerns of practitioners in the sister fields of instructional design and technology (IDT) and human performance technology (HPT). Yet still, there are …
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Experiences of Physical Sciences teachers when introduced to an electronic expert system
… in the use and development of an Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS). The EPSS process involves extended individualised support for teachers through face-to-face training. A purposive sample was utilised and 22 Grade 11 Physical Sciences teachers participated in the study. Teachers’ …
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The Relationship of Personal Incentives, Job Opportunity Incentives, and Performance for Real Estate Associates
… objective measures and one subjective measure of performance was explored. Spectrum, developed out of the theory of personal investment, was administered to 140 real estate associates, affiliated with eight firms located in three, mid-Illinois, communities. Demographic information including …
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Predictors of Academic Success: A Study of First-Year Student-Athletes at a Private Midwestern University
… variables were predictive of first-year academic performance of student-athletes. The results of the analysis found that the composite score of the ACT, was the academic variable with the most significant correlation to first year grade point average. In addition, race and ethnicity and …
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An Aviation Weather Preflight Decision Support Tool to Improve GA Pilots' Preflight and Inflight Performance
… of this study was to investigate the effect of a performance support tool for weather preflight (PWDST) on pilots’ preflight performance and inflight performance. Seventy-eight private pilots (<em>M</em><em>age </em>= 20.15, SD = 2.56) without instrument ratings were recruited from a Southeastern …
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Rule Extraction from Support Vector Machines: A Geometric Approach
… architectures and present limited generalization performance. Support Vector Machine is an unsupervised learning method that has been recently applied successfully in many areas, and o®ers excellent generalization ability in comparison with other neural network, statistical, or symbolic machine …
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Action Sports in Transition: Optimizing Performance
… Pipe) have progressed dramatically in objective performance levels while transitioning into Olympic sports. This thesis investigates the nature and impact of this transition, with a focus on athlete performance and coaching. A general overview of the sport from a biopsychosocial perspective is …
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Exploring the factors impacting knowledge transfer (in E.R.P training)
… in conjunction with the identified environmental support factors could improve the rate of training transfer for this ERP programme. It is acknowledged that the previous studies conducted showed no congruency and hence present a challenge to identifying major factors in knowledge transfer.
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The development and evaluation of a job aid for lesson planning for volunteer teachers
… the task of teaching. A job aid might provide performance support for one aspect of their teaching responsibilities, the task of planning for teaching. The prupose of this study is to chronicle the development process for the creation of a job aid for planning for teaching (based on a …
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Partimento pedagogy and its modern application
… how the theory of improvisation and interpretive performance support each other, and how learning improvisation can help fill gaps in the current classical training. Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the value of improvisation pedagogy which could compensate for the problems …
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