Success in Consulting

Do you regularly reflect on the value you bring to your client? The act of reflection is something experienced consultants, both internal and external, consistently do in their practice. This article examines the ways in which Certified Performance Technologists (CPTs) define and recognize the success of their efforts, but most importantly, how they learn from engagements that do not always end with the desired outcome. You will hear from CPTs across several industries in their own words about what strategies they have employed to continue to improve their skill sets.     

Instructional Design Students’ Design Judgment in Action

This case study examines the design practices of instructional design (ID) students while working on a realistic design project (Joel, 1987) to explore whether ID students make design judgments; how, when, and where they are making them; and what kinds of judgments they make during a realistic instructional design process. The perspective taken in this study is that design judgments comprise multiple, complex types and are not confined to moments of overt decision making (Nelson & Stolterman, 2012). In this small‐scale case study, a group of students was observed in the process of designing instruction within a semester. The findings of the study suggest that these ID students continuously made design judgments of many kinds throughout the design process.     

文化与人格关系研究的若干问题

以文化学的视角审视,人格是个体在特定文化状态下的生存样态,其实质是一种文化人格,即个体在接受特定文化熏陶时,通过对特定文化的内化及个体社会化所形成的稳定的心理结构和行为方式。文化与人格的研究产生于20世纪初叶,90年代后,文化与人格研究领域呈现出多层面、跨学科的研究态势,跨文化层面、文化间层面和文化内层面上的人格研究同时进行,并均有突破性进展。文化与人性的关系、人格结构的普遍性、文化与人格相互作用的机制、跨文化的普遍性人格特质、文化间的差异与典型人格的关系等问题成为这一研究的重点和热点。