Analyzing Performance Problems: Save Time, Money, and Frustration and Get the Performance You Need! Performance problems are something we all face. In business and in schools, at home and with friends, people often don't perform as we want them to. The new Third Edition of Analyzing Performance Problems gives you the power to identify the causes of performance problems and create realistic solutions that work.
 
Analyzing Performance Problems gives you a step-by-step process for solving virtually any performance problem you face. Instead of guessing at solutions that won't work, you can save time, money, and frustration by finding the true cause of the problem and identifying the best and most economical way to solve it. You'll learn to:

• Identify the true causes of performance problems,
• Determine if you can use "fast fixes" (solutions that are quick and easy), and
• Identify realistic, economically feasible solutions. 

 This new Third Edition includes:

• Three new chapters
• A new flowchart and checklist to guide you step-by-step through the process
• Over 50 real-world examples
• And much more!

Preparing Instructional Objectives: Create the Foundation for Instructional Success! Instructional objectives are the cornerstone of successful instruction. When written well, they enable you to identify appropriate content for your instruction, organize your instruction in the best way possible, and create tools to accurately determine if instruction is achieving your goals.
 
The best-selling book ever written on this subject, Preparing Instructional Objectives is your systematic guide to identifying, selecting, and writing objectives that create the foundation for instructional success. Newly revised and completely updated, this Third Edition shows you how to write objectives that give you the power to:

• Select the best content and methods for achieving your objectives,
• Provide learners with a road map to guide them through the learning process,
• Give learners a better chance of succeeding, and
• Demonstrate the value of what you're teaching.

Preparing Instructional Objectives is a hands-on resource that leaves you with tangible and practical skills you can use immediately to improve your instruction. This newly revised edition includes:

• Over 50 practice exercises to sharpen your skills
• An Objectives Checklist to help you distinguish good objectives from those that need work.
• A new chapter on where objectives come from and the systematic process for deriving them
• And much more!

Measuring Instructional Results: Know for Sure Your Learners Have Mastered What You Set Out to Teach Them! Minimize Learner Frustration! Measuring Instructional Results shows you how.
 
In this newly revised and updated classic, you are given a systematic and easy-to-follow process for assessing whether learners have mastered the important skills your instruction is designed to teach. Never again will you have to wonder: "Is my instruction really working?" Measuring Instructional Results gives you the power to know for sure.
 
Measuring Instructional Results shows you how to prepare and select test items that match your objectives for learner performance. Your learners stay motivated because you eliminate the frustration caused by teaching one thing and testing for another, and you know for sure learners can really do what you expect of them.
 
Written in clear, concise, and jargon-free language, Measuring Instructional Results is a hands-on guide that gives you tangible, practical skills you can use immediately to improve your instruction. This revised edition includes:

• Over 80 practice exercises to sharpen your skills,
• A handy pull-out reference card to help you match test items to objectives,
• A new index for easy reference,
• And much more!

Measuring Instructional Results is a resource you'll come back to time and time again to ensure you achieve your instructional goals.

How to Turn Learners On... without turning them off: Make Learners Willing and Eager to Apply What They've Learned! Get Students Excited About Learning! Sound too good to be true? It isn't. In this newly revised Third Edition, How to Turn Learners On...without turning them off (formerly Developing Attitude Toward Learning) gives you the power to create positive attitudes in your students. Using real-world examples combined with lots of humor and personal insights, the book gives you the tools to improve student motivation, thereby increasing student success. You'll learn to:

• Get learners excited about what you're teaching,
• Make them eager to learn more,
• Increase the likelihood they'll apply what they've learned, and
• Reduce frustration and prevent learners from giving up. 

This revised edition includes two new chapters on giving learners the confidence to perform and on the impact external factors (especially people!) have on whether natural talent grows or dies. You also receive a new Checklist to help you build learners' confidence.

Written in an easy-to-read and approachable style, How to Turn Learners On...without turning them off gives you both the tools and the desire to give every student the gift of loving to learn.

Goal Analysis: How To Clarify Your Goals So You Can Actually Achieve Them! People often don't say exactly what they mean. They talk in vague terms -- words that can be interpreted in many different ways. This is particularly distressing when they set goals that others are supposed to achieve.
 
You've probably heard things like, "Our managers need to be leaders," or "My students should have a better appreciation for history."
 
How would anyone recognize achievement of such goals? What are students doing when "appreciating" history? What specifically do managers do when they "lead"?
 
To achieve useful goals, those goals must be translated into specific, observable, desired performances. The new and completely revised Third Edition of Goal Analysis gives you a concise, simple, step-by-step process for doing so. It shows you how to:

• Discover the meaning of vaguely stated goals,
• Decide what steps are appropriate for achieving those goals, and
• Recognize and demonstrate achievement of your goals. 

The revised Third Edition includes:

• Four new chapters
• Over 50 practice exercises to sharpen your skills
• A dozen diagrams and graphs to help you understand the process
• A new index for easy reference
• And much more!

You'll find this technique so useful that you'll use it not only with colleagues, managers, and students, but with friends and family as well.

Making Instruction Work: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Designing and Developing Instruction That Works! Making Instruction Work is you step-by-step guide to designing and developing instruction that achieves your objectives. Completely revised, it shows you techniques you can apply immediately to make your instruction more lean, on target, and effective. 
 
In an easy-to-understand and approachable style, this new Second Edition of Making Instruction Work simplifies the complicated task of developing instruction and gives you practical procedures for increasing its effectiveness and efficiency. It takes you step-by-step through the design and development process, providing an invaluable overview of the steps critical to achieving your instructional goals. The book will help you:

• Decide when instruction is appropriate,
• Find feasible solutions to performance problems,
• Improve existing courses,
• Give students the desire to apply what they've learned, and
• Eliminate unnecessary content.

This revised Second Edition includes a new index for easy reference. You also receive a reference tool for guidance in determining the order of the content of your instruction. Full of examples and practical tips, Making Instruction Work is a must for anyone in the business of teaching others.