Nelson C. Nix Educational Center for Excellence was a nationally recognized alternative educational program in Orangeburg, SC

1. How do we get there?

2. EDUCATION TRAINING
PERFORMANCE-
BASED INSTRUCTION

3. » Instruction is intended to transmit specific content,
there is no responsibility for helping learners apply
the content outside of the classroom.
Instructor Learners

4. » Instruction transmits content that is related to
workplace performance; the trainer assumes
responsibility for selecting content that is
relevant to the workplace, but does not assume
responsibility for helping the learner use the
content.
Trainer
Content
Learner

5. » Instruction enables people to perform
competently in the workplace; it assumes
responsibility for relevance, applicability and
application of the content.
This is where we are going at Nix.
Learner
Instruction
Content

7. » None of the others take full responsibility for transfer
of training. It is a three way partnership between
people responsible for instruction, people responsible
for workplace performance, and people responsible for
learning. Each has it’s place and limitations.
Instruction
Learning
Workplace
Performance

8. PUBLIC
EDUCATION
• Is not intended to prepare people for the workplace; it is intended to
provide people with the skills of reading, writing, computing and
reasoning that would help them be successful there.
VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION
• Is not intended to train people for the needs of a specific workplace; it
seeks to provide people with marketable skills that could be used in a
variety of workplaces.
TRAINING
• Tends not to focus on a specific workplace, it often leaves transfer up
to the learner.

9. » Proficiency-Based Learning is as old as children imitating
adults or experts doing a task that captures their interest over
a long period of time. They become novice as they receive
pointers from the expert. The novice mastered enough tasks
to begin helping the expert, perhaps taking over the work as
the expert retires.

10. » Performance is both product and process. The performance-based
instruction achieves it’s focus and relevance by attention to product; it
achieves excellence only when it teaches processes that reliably yield
excellent products.
We must teach students to use the process to produce the product.
Reference: Performance-Based Instruction, linking training to business results, by Dale Brethower and Karolyn Smalley.