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DISPOSITIONAL INFLUENCES ON TRANSFER OF LEARNING IN MULTISTAGE TRAINING PROGRAMS
Author(s) -
HEROLD DAVID M.,
DAVIS WALTER,
FEDOR DONALD B.,
PARSONS CHARLES K.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2002.tb00132.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conscientiousness , openness to experience , transfer of training , training (meteorology) , applied psychology , license , transfer of learning , social psychology , medical education , personality , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , extraversion and introversion , medicine , physics , meteorology , operating system
The training effectiveness literature has paid little attention to the potentially dynamic interaction of individual differences with various phases of training in determining ultimate training success. This study investigates the role of individual differences in explaining the transfer of learning from 1 phase of training to another among pilot trainees in a multistage, aviation training program. Using 3 of the Big Five factors (Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness to Experience), the results showed these measures to contribute to the prediction of the number of hours it took for trainees to attain their private pilot's license. Significant interactions between some of these measures and success on an earlier, simulator phase of the training program were also found. The results are discussed in terms of both the role of individual differences in training research as well as the broader issue of transfer of learning between phases of training.