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Interamerican Journal of Psychology

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Abstract

PILATI, Ronaldo  and  PALOMERO GONZALEZ, Coral. Validation and Equivalence Test of Factorial Structure of Work Application Strategies. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.1, pp. 39-48. ISSN 0034-9690.

The evaluation of training and development field is focus of scientific investigation in organizational psychology. Individual variables, like the strategies that individuals use to develop conditions to apply the learning in the post-training environment are essential to training effectiveness. This paper has the main purpose of testing the equivalence of the factorial structure of the measurement scale of work application strategies of learning from training in two countries with different cultures: Brazil and Spain. This paper also has the objective of validate de Spanish version of the scale. Factor analysis was done and the results indicate a similar factorial structure in both countries. Theoretical implications and scale's use are discussed.

Keywords : Training evaluation; Training effectiveness; Work application strategies of the learning from training.

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