The Advancement of Training within Business Using Behavior-Based Instructional Design

Employee training is an obvious need for business and industry. Although training has long been studied by behavioral scientists, important considerations have sometimes been neglected from the perspective of instructional design if one wants training to be both efficient and effective. The most critical outcome for the design of any training system is to efficiently ensure that the graduates from a training sequence can perform to the standards of behavior expected of an expert while facing conditions that an expert would likely encounter. As such, behavior-based instructional design places a strong focus on establishing various behavioral relations and the conditions necessary to assess trainee repertoires, which will be examined in detail. Furthermore, special consideration is necessary for design considerations with multimedia instruction, particularly within the context of computer-based training. Specializations and skills necessary for the success of a behavioral scientist working in instructional design will also be considered.