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Brethower, Dale – Performance Improvement, 2004
Sense and nonsense is abound in human performance technology (HPT). There is no single cause of the abundance of nonsense. However, there is a reason that nonsense is more abundant than sense. The reason is that any principle has a specific domain of applicability. Within that domain it is sense. Outside that domain it is nonsense. Some…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Instruction, Intervention, Performance Factors
Edyburn, Dave L. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2006
The "achievement gap" is a well-documented problem in schools. Evidence of an academic performance problem requires that educators respond quickly and differently to signs of academic failure. As the lessons of the achievement gap suggest that historical decisions about when to intervene with performance support are flawed, performance…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Appropriate Technology

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