EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Crystal Computing, Summative Assessment, Job Performance

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC 240
• Professor: Malcolm Whiteway

Document Summary

Design that permits some conclusions drawn from causal designs. Key points: evaluating training interventions helps justify their costs and improve their effectiveness, despite their obvious benefits, evaluations are not carried out for various reasons. It is not without its critics and other models have been suggested (coma, dbe). The north american transportation company (natc) is a very large organization that provides continent-wide facilities for the shipping of goods, from tonnes of wheat and iron ore to individual parcels. Headquartered in canada, the company uses all forms of heavy equipment to load, transport, and deliver goods and materials for its clients. In recent years, a number of accidents and near-accidents occurred. In some cases the accidents caused injuries to people (mainly employees, though some injuries were sustained by bystanders). They also caused substantial material damage to property and/or the environment. In three cases in the last five years, people were killed.