Week 7 Reflection

According to chapter 14 of “Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology” by Reiser and Dempsey who describe a term of Human Performance Improvement which has a relatively straightforward, vision and mission, solutions for closing human performance gaps, and the similarities between Human Performance Improvement and other fields.

I conclude three significant benefits through reading this chapter, which is the meaning of Human Performance Improvement, the impact of Human Performance Improvement, and how using the ideas/concepts/principles that discussed in this chapter to apply them in my professional work in future (Education).

First of all, we have to understand the clear meaning of Human Performance Improvement which is the systematic process consist of several phases. First ,discovering and analyzing the important human performance gaps. Second, making a plan for future improvements in human performance. Third, creating a design and develop the cost-effective to close performance gaps. Fourth, implementing the interventions. Fifth, evaluating the financial and non-financial results.

Moreover, Human Performance Improvement focuses on efforts and results of people at work, school or any other institutions. Human Performance Improvement experts work with the staff of the organization to identify the root performance cause and try to identify solutions that will best close the gap in performance. This leads to developing human abilities. Higher authority of the organizations (administration in case of a school) should provide many training sessions for managers and supervisors (teachers, other workers, and students in case of a school) and make them understand about performance improvement for the benefit of the organizations. Further, there are many advantages of Human Performance Improvement which contribute to helping organizations to become better and faster at achieving their business goals and maximize the potential of organization’s systems, processes, and people to achieve extraordinary results. So, Human Performance Improvement offers for users more far-reaching and positive results than traditional recursive training efforts.

As an educator, there are a myriad of solutions that are cost-effective to improve and facilitate performance of the human that I could implement in the learning environment. For instance, the environmental factors influence the people significantly when working, and that it can benefit or lack from someone's performance.  Implementing this idea into the idea of Human Performance Improvement and Human Performance Technology leads to determining an outcome of a problem that needs to be solved. In future, I will try to focus not only on what the students get done but also pay attention and to continue to motivate them during the work process.

When I was a student in high school, I remember the administrator of the school who gives all the students their reports of grades after a midterm test. She focused on our grades (if it improved or lacked), asked students about the difficulties that they faces and caused lacking their performance, making meeting with teachers and discuss with them how to improve the student's performance based on what she heard from students (complex exam, lack formative assessment, or did not provide a feedback for students). I believe that is a great method to improve both teachers and students performance because the result will be a higher grade for student and better performance of teachers.