Training Needs Assessment (Techniques in Training and Performance Development Series) [Hardcover]

Allison Rossett (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 294 pages
• Publisher: Educational Technology Pubns; 2nd edition edition (August 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877781958
• ISBN-13: 978-0877781950
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Allison Rossett, long time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is in the Training magazine HRD Hall of Fame, was recently a member of the ASTD International Board of Directors, and was honored by selection as an ISPI Member-for-Life. Recipient of ASTD's recognition for lifelong contributions to workplace learning and performance and designated a 2008 LEGEND, Allison co-authored Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving from Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere in 2007. In 2009, she released a new edition of her classic First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis. Allison was featured in eLearn magazine in December, 2008.

Rossett edited The ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field. She also completed a white paper for the American Management Association, Blended Learning Opportunities and another, more recently, on learner engagement, for Adobe Systems. She is the author of four award-winning books, including Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World and First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis. Prior award-winning books are Training Needs Assessment, and A Handbook of Job Aids. Some of Allison recent articles are "Performance Support Tools: Delivering Value When and Where Needed," "Moving Your Class Online," "Confessions of a Web Dropout," and "Training and Organizational Development, Siblings Separated at Birth." She has conducted research and published articles on needs analysis, learner engagement, and persistence in online learning. Her client list includes IBM, HP, the Getty Conservation Institute, Fidelity Investments, Deloitte Consulting, BP, the IRS, Amgen, Royal Bank of Scotland, the US Army, Transportation Security Administration, and several e-learning start-ups.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly interesting, March 29, 2008

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This review is from: Training Needs Assessment (Techniques in Training and Performance Development Series) (Hardcover)

When I had to order this book for a class, I groaned on the inside. It just doesn't look like that interesting of a book. When I cracked it open, I didn't see anything more promising at first.

When I actually started working through the book in my class, I found it to be quite easy to read and comprehend, and the information is quite applicable and interesting. It's not just because of my program of study, the information would be good for anybody thinking in terms of assessing what is needed in an application.

I would suggest that the publisher put a little money into a more colorful cover (they went cheap 2-color here), a better graphic artist and a little more zing in presentation. The information herein is worth so much more than than the attention it was given.