According to Allison Rossett, performance technology is "improving human performance by taking a hard and fresh look at how the organization and individual work together to achieve business results. An attempt to achieve business and organization results through strategies that improve and align organizational performance" (Rossett, 1999, par. 1).
The current status of human performance
technology is based on the history of HPT and how
it has moved from instructional technology to performance
technology. Over time, we have had several people
append to the knowledge base of IPT, allowing the expansion
of the field and its direction.
Within the study of IPT, the basis of
instructional performance is hinged on the study of psychology.
An article offered by Peggy
Ertmer and Timothy Newby brings behaviorism, cognitivism,
and constructivism offers readers a better understanding
of learning theories in alignment with psychology.
