NEGATIVE AUTOMAINTENANCE OMISSION TRAINING IS EFFECTIVE

Is working memory training effective?

Working memory (WM) is a cognitive system that strongly relates to a person's ability to reason with novel information and direct attention to goal-relevant information. Due to the central role that WM plays in general cognition, it has become the focus of a rapidly growing training literature that seeks to affect broad cognitive change through prolonged training on WM tasks. Recent work has su...

Psychological Bulletin Is Working Memory Training Effective?

When is Self-Training Effective for Parsing?

Self-training has been shown capable of improving on state-of-the-art parser performance (McClosky et al., 2006) despite the conventional wisdom on the matter and several studies to the contrary (Charniak, 1997; Steedman et al., 2003). However, it has remained unclear when and why selftraining is helpful. In this paper, we test four hypotheses (namely, presence of a phase transition, impact of ...

Is training effective for older workers?

Training older workers might benefit individuals, employers, and society as a whole. Research on learning in older adults indicates that they are able to acquire new skills. Studies on the effectiveness of training on the employability and productivity of older workers find positive effects. Training can avoid skill obsolescence and respond to the growing importance of technology-based occupati...

Effective Online Staff Training: Is This Possible?

The purpose of this paper is to consider the introduction of online courses to replace the current classroom-based staff training. The current training is practical, and must be completed before access to the financial computer system is authorized. The long term objective is to measure the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of the training, and to establish whether a transfer of knowledge ...