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 Construct Validity When constructing a test, for whatever purpose, the question of test validity needs to be addressed. Test validity asks to what extent does the assessment tool being used truly measure what it purports to measure (known as construct validity in testing jargon). Take for example the classic I.Q test in the 1960s. These tests often found to be “invalid”, because they weren’t really measuring intelligence as they claimed to do, but rather, they were testing reading skills under time constraints.The test often failed to spot intelligent children who may have simply possessed poor reading skills due to poor training, lack of practice, motivation, dyslexia, etc. In time, the development of I.Q. tests changed and included, as well as reading, oral questions and responses, drawings, visual recognition, tactile exercises, and discussions. Train the Trainer Program Criterion Validity But the story continues. Researchers found that even though tests could be construct...
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Why Your PowerPoint Slides Are Irritating Your Audiences

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 Many business presentations today engage in an audience-unfriendly practice of using slides that are overloaded with text. It’s tempting to think that this could be helpful to an international audience. But for the majority of internationally mixed audiences whose language skills are only sufficient enough to follow along with the speaker,  using text simultaneously will be a distraction. Presentations Skills Training Courses More precisely, we know from our own experience that reading bullet sentences while trying to follow the speaker talk at the same time is a difficult exercise. That’s because text projected onto a screen is not really “visual support” per se, even though we’ve come to think of it as such. Indeed, there’s nothing visual about it at all. Text, at its most basic level, is a symbol (letters, sentences) of another symbol (spoken words). In essence, reading requires the mind to decode symbols at two layers of abstraction with each subsequent layer moving at...
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To Advance, You Need to Develop Your Business Writing Skills

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  One of the most important skills for employees of an international company, whose company language is English, is the skills of writing clear and concise communications. This is not only true for needing to communicate to their international clients and suppliers. But it’s especially true for internal communications. Indeed, for career advancement, there is perhaps an even greater requirement to write project briefs and requests, reports, executive summaries, meeting summaries, and emails in a clear, concise and professional style than there is for external partners.  Business Writing Course  . The reason for this is that good business decisions depend on clear communication. This is true up and down and across the company structure. It is far easier to coordinate internal projects and share ideas when all coworkers understand the ideas that are being put forth, as well as processes for completing the project. When employees understand what they can expect of each other...
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Make Your Training More Interactive and Raise Learning Effectiveness

  Benjamin Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn”. Many of us know intuitively that this is true. We know that the key to acquiring real knowledge is only learned when it becomes one with us at a deeper level. Any yet, much training within companies is still lecture based, with numerous PowerPoint slides filled with text. The trainer often just reads that text to his bored audience – who after ten minutes, are no longer paying attention. In addition, there is rarely any chance to put the learning into practice numerous times until competency is reached, not to mention any assessment with feedback of what was supposedly learned.It’s a scenario many company employees know all too well. And it’s a situation that educational experts have found brings little in the way of learning. Intercultural Presentations Training - Germany  . The key to effective training, and by extension, effective learning - rests upon three pillars: ...
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How Developing a Good Presentation is Like Great Theater

  Great theater is one of the great pleasures in life. It is more than an event; it should be a memorable experience that moves the audience to identify with the story and characters. Great theater, like good presentations, has 3 basic components as seen and heard from the audience. 1. You need a good script. It should be a story that draws the audience in – and keeps them interested until the final moments. 2. You need good actors who can bring the roles to life. They not only know their lines, but they are natural in their characters who merge completely with their roles. This makes them so believable that the audience can no longer see the actor behind the role. And finally, the eye needs to “see” the story supported by a good set, good props and appropriate costumes – all of which reflect the story being told and the roles being played by the actors. All three components need to work in harmony so that the performance is convincing at every level  Business Communications S...
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Improve Your Presentation Skills Significantly

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Do you need to make a product, business, technical or science presentation? Perhaps you need to prepare for a TED Talk. The key to all of these talks is to captivate your audiences quickly – and then hold their attention throughout – and finally move them to act  Intercultural Presentations Training - Germany  . How you may ask. What makes for a good presentation? A goodPresentations Skills Workshop /Seminar in Germany (online or on site) will show participants how to structure a talk in story form. Why?Because our minds our hard-wired to hear stories, which humans have been usingfor tens of thousands of years. Our memory works best when we first understand the context, or the problem involved. Memory is also activated if the audience can experience an emotional response to what is being said.  A good story, even for marketing and sales, and for scientific and inspirational talks, does this. It makes an ordinary presentation, into a  powerful presentation . This is a...
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Attend 1-Day Online Workshop on Effective Business Writing

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It is a fact that having concise and effective business writing skills is a key to success in today’s business world. Exceptional writing skills arecited as one of the most vital skills necessary for success in the modern workplace. From writing sales documents and persuasive memos to executive summaries and clear project briefs, the demand for well-written material has skyrocketed in the digital age. The foremost question is,who should  enrol for an on-site or online  business writing skills  coursewiththe International Presentation Academy? The working professionals who are the right candidate for this online seminar on effective business writing include: Business supervisors and managers Marketing and communication professionals Project managers and R&D executives Human Resource (HR) professionals And anyone who needs to hone their written communication skills   This one-day online business writing skills seminar (or on-site in Munich, Germany) is under the gu...
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