Section 10.4: Test Your Knowledge

Reflective Question
Consider a time when you participated in a training program. Choose two of Caffarella’s five key influencing factors and explain in a paragraph why they were important in determining the training program’s outcome.

Define & Explain

• What were the three identified conditions for transfer?
• What strategy is learned in a workplace education program that management might use to solve new problems on the shop floor?
• What are the four science-based recommendations to help create a learning culture on the team? Why are they necessary?
• What are Newstorm’s three factors that acted as barriers to the transfer of learning?
• What is an obstacle an employee can face in their immediate environment? Provide an example and discuss why it impedes training.
• What are Kemerer’s three areas that inhibit the transfer of training?
• What was a previously unconsidered barrier to the transfer of learning?
• What does ADKAR stand for?
• How does the ADKAR model relate to the transfer of Learning?
• What is one strategy for program development that can be used prior, during, and after creating training programs?
• What is one strategy a supervisor/trainer can use prior, during, and after training?
• What are the transfer strategies trainees can use during the training process?
• Why is it good to take transfer strategies before the training?
• What is the importance of planning for application as a strategy?