Search Results - subject:"Learning Transfer"

To identify individual, learning arena-specific and institutional factors that affect learning transfer in company-sponsored further training: An empirical study with further train...

Wolf, Theresa Gisela - 2021

The hotel sector is facing special challenges, such as the acute shortage of skilled workers and rising service standards. Company-sponsored further training is regarded as an appropriate measure for keeping pace with these developments (DEHOGA, 2011, p. 1). However, the increasing number of...

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Predictors of Collateral Learning Transfer in Continuing Vocational Training

Hinrichs, Anja-Christina - In: International Journal for Research in Vocational … 1 (2014) 1, pp. 35-56

identification of predictors of learning transfer that takes place alongside the training participation and in the investigation of … significant effect on learning transfer parallel to the training – the so called collateral learning transfer. These five … predictors explain together 62% of the variance of collateral learning transfer (gathered as performance improvement at work). …

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Predictors of Collateral Learning Transfer in Continuing Vocational Training

Hinrichs, Anja-Christina - In: International journal for research in vocational … 1 (2014) 1, pp. 35-56

identification of predictors of learning transfer that takes place alongside the training participation and in the investigation of … significant effect on learning transfer parallel to the training - the so called collateral learning transfer. These five … predictors explain together 62% of the variance of collateral learning transfer (gathered as performance improvement at work). …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497731

From Attitude Change to Behaviour Change: Institutional Mediators of Education for Sustainable Development Effectiveness

Velasco, Ismael; Harder, Marie K - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6553-6575

potential design implications. We use concepts taken from training research, where “learning transfer” refers to the translation … and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This allows an opportunity to consider variations in learning transfer due to …

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An Unlucky Feeling: Persistent Overestimation of Absolute Performance with Noisy Feedback

Grossman, Zachary; Owens, David - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2011

How does overconfidence arise and persist in the face of experience and feedback? We examine experimentally how individuals' beliefs about their absolute, as opposed to relative, performance on a quiz react to noisy, but unbiased, feedback. Participants believe themselves to have received...

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An Unlucky Feeling: Overconfidence and Noisy Feedback

Grossman, Zachary; Owens, David - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2010

How does overconfidence arise and how does it persist in the face of experience and feedback? In an experimental setting, we examine how individualsâ€™ beliefs about their own performance on a quiz react to noisy, but unbiased feedback. In a control treatment, each participant expresses her...

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Policies Supporting Organic Food Markets in the EU: Analyses by Stakeholders in 11 European Countries

Vairo, Daniela; Haring, Anna Maria; Dabbert, Stephan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

There is no single 'best way' of policy development. Bottom-up approaches to policy design and a broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and innovation. A novel approach of a bottom-up policy design process involving stakeholders is introduced. First results obtained by this...

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Policies supporting organic food and farming in the EU: assessment and development by stakeholders in 11 European countries

Vairo, Daniela; Haring, Anna Maria; Dabbert, Stephan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

There is no single 'best way' of policy development. Bottom- up approaches to policy design and a broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and innovation. A novel approach of a bottom- up policy design process involving stakeholders is introduced. First results obtained by this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525241