Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Response to From Puzzles to Problems article by McLinden and Trochim

Whoa! Only 4 people participated in the pre and post testing? And only 9 worked with the clustering of the 66 ideas developed by who knows how many people in the training development team?

Sounds like the authors know their math, but the selection size is WAY too small. Well at least there were more than 20 participants in the study at some point.

Were the authors surprised that many of the participants did not feel competent some months after the training because there wasn't' enough opportunity to practice their new skills? I would say that it is a regular result of training that if you don't immediately begin using the new skills regularly, they will be mostly lost.

1 comment:

Datta Kaur said...

Thomas,

There is so much to be learned by what doesn't work:).

Datta Kaur