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3 Purpose of the Research Transit agencies rely on technical training to ensure safe operations, maintenance, and service. Providing quality, cost-effective training is a constant challenge.
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4 Transit Technical Training, Volume 2: Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Best and Innovative Training This guidebook provides information on best practices and approaches for overcoming barriers related to these focus areas that transit agencies can implement to effectively train frontline employees in a time of high demand, aging equipment and infrastructure, and limited resources. Taxonomy of Shared-Training Formats This section describes best practices and effective approaches for shared-training models.
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Introduction 5 Transportation Management Association to support common training needs for states and rural transit agencies who receive RTAP funding. RTAP hosts an online training library of free instructor and participant course materials, learning resources, and a directory of trainers.
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6 Transit Technical Training, Volume 2: Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Best and Innovative Training Consortiums Consortiums are developed through partnerships and collaboration among members of industry organizations and academia. Similar to partnership programs, they are developed in order to deal with widespread training challenges such as limited funding at individual agencies or increasing demands due to new equipment and infrastructure.
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Introduction 7 ensures all organizations, small to large, are able to participate and reap the benefits of the learning center. In the agriculture industry, the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
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8 Transit Technical Training, Volume 2: Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Best and Innovative Training Best-Practice Training Program/Practice Defined For the purposes of this evaluation framework, "best practices" are generally defined by programs and training that adhere to the criteria presented in Exhibit 2. Evaluating Training Best Practices for Inclusion ICF employed a hybrid evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of training programs, which is aligned to the four components of best-practice criteria above.
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Introduction 9 ensures the training results in desired skill acquisition and subsequent performance changes, respectively. Best practice suggests Levels 2 and 3 evaluations are good starting points for assessment of innovative training programs for the shared resource model.
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10 Transit Technical Training, Volume 2: Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Best and Innovative Training model (Chapter 5)
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Introduction 11 They can also be adapted based on the training topic, objectives, and format (e.g., web-based and classroom-based)
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12 Transit Technical Training, Volume 2: Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Best and Innovative Training designs, baseline data, a culture that supports evaluation, and a team that can support continuous improvements, all of which can be hard to come by in the industry. Thus, access to shared evaluation templates that can be adapted to local agency needs is beneficial.
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