Steps for conducting field research include generating the idea, finding sites, selling the idea, identifying longitudinal concerns, meeting human subject guidelines, motivating participants, obtaining good data, exerting control, creating ownership, handling conflict, and presenting results. (SK)

As learning and performance improvement continues to dominate the training research landscape, so does the need to justify the results of relevant interventions. One area in training research that has continued to elude practitioners and researchers is enhancing the use of trained skills back on the job (i.e., training transfer). Relapse…

This paper describes a framework for research in Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) instruction that is grounded in existing theory and research from education literature. A recently developed model that integrates instructional design and learning motivation theories provides a theoretical basis for future efforts of researchers…