Background: Virtual reality (VR) is becoming increasingly accessible and being utilized in various organizations to meet education and training needs. Despite its potential, research regarding VR applications has focused on measuring the effectiveness of VR programs relative to non-VR programs; consequently, the ways in which VR programs are…

Training needs reassessment at times requires extra time and effort in asking questions, doing surveys, or doing interviews. By extracting themes and key concepts from trainees' online narrative feedback after training, this research explored a mixed way of human and computational analysis on trainees' perception of training deficiencies to weave…

This study examines the use of individual development plans (IDPs) in a structured mentoring program as an effective mechanism for reducing identity-related anxiety for underrepresented trainees and increasing their learner agency. Social cognitive theory served to provide the theoretical framework for our implementation of IDPs and our…

This study examines the expectations and effectiveness of a teacher training program for early childhood music education, specifically focusing on the Holistic Music Educational Approach for Young Children (HMEAYC) and its integration with local cultural frameworks. Participants (n = 30) from a private university's Department of Early Childhood…

The study examines an important aspect of the training evaluation, namely trainee reaction to training. In particular, the author aimed to analyse the relationship between learning self-efficacy during the training and identified factors of trainee reaction to training: trainee perception of the training content, design, and trainer performance.…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the formative evaluations of the training programmes of a Portuguese national railway public company for an entire calendar year. The aim is to uncover alternative configurations for the design of training programmes to create better levels of evaluation. This study is based on the following research…

With the establishment of Second Chance Schools (SCS) inside Greek prisons, a more systematic and integrated effort was made for the overall development of trainees. Many studies have been conducted regarding the work that SCS provide. For this reason, a systematic review of the relevant bibliography and a compilation of the findings of the…

The objectives of the study are to develop a curriculum for an English training for counter clerks in convenience stores in Chiang Mai, Thailand and to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed curriculum. A mixed-method research design was employed. In the curriculum development phase, participants were 20 counter clerks and 10 administrators…

Experiential learning is an effective educational tool across many academic disciplines, including career development. Nine different institutions bridged by the National Institutes of Health Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training Consortium compared their experiments in rethinking and expanding training of predoctoral graduate students and…

Two years B.Ed course has brought drastic changes in the field of teacher education. One among that is school exposure for 2 weeks in the semester 1 and 2. School exposure programme is a pre-requisite for a trainee teacher. It is rightly regarded as the most crucial part of any teacher education programme. It provides a platform for trainee…

The purpose of this article is to assess the course content relevance in contributing to wage- or self-employment of adult non-formal education and training (NFET) in the context of South Africa. The concern that informed this article is that adults who face long-term unemployment due to a lack of marketable skills remain unemployed after…