Distance Education: training transfer evaluation

Abstract

This study identifies variables that explain the application of skills taught to participants of a web-based professional education distance-learning program. The scales Ambient of Study and Interaction Procedures, Learning Strategies, Reaction to Instructional Procedures, Reaction to Tutor Performance and Training Transfer were applied and submitted to statistical validation. Data collection was performed in three different points in time. The multiple regression model displayed the average of the answers of 470 participants in relation to the items of the scale Transfer of Training as a variable criterion. The predictor variables were the average answers of participants to items of the remaining scales. The results revealed that the participant who favorably perceived his/her Context of Study and Instructional Procedures and more frequently used the learning strategies known as Elaboration and Comprehension Monitoring also reported an increased occurrence of Training Transfer.