Construct validation of an Arabic version of the Learning Transfer System Inventory for use in Jordan

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to translate and validate an Arabic version of the Learning Transfer System Inventory (LTSI) for use in Jordan. The study also investigated the perceptions of transfer system characteristics across selected individual and situational variables. The LTSI was administered to 450 employees of 28 different public and private sector organizations operating in Jordan. Principal axis factoring with oblique rotation was used to uncover the underlying structure of the Arabic version of the LTSI. Results showed a latent factor structure that is highly consistent with the English version of the LTSI. Results also indicated that transfer system perceptions differed across levels of education, years of experience, types of training, choice of training, sector of the organization and task of the organization. Implications for the field of human resource development are also provided.The world has become a globalized economic system where countries with high levels of technology, finance and information have more advantages in controlling the sources of human capital, raw materials and product development and distribution. Jordan, a small but strategic country, plugged into the world economic system by privatizing its economy to attract foreign investments, is pursuing further steps in Construct validation of an Arabic version of the Learning Transfer System Inventory 181

Training Transfer: An Integrative Literature Review

“…Trainers can use the results of learner responses to the LTSI to identify areas that may impair positive training transfer at the learner, design, and work climate levels. While the bulk of empirical work using the LTSI has been to validate the instrument with domestic and international samples (Khasawneh, Bates, & Holton, 2004;Yamnill & McLean, 2005) and to conduct correlational studies involving learner and organizational variables (Bates & Khasawneh, 2005;Seyler et al, 1998), there has been no published work linking the use of the LTSI to actual improvement in transfer outcomes.…”

Barriers Encountered in the Transfer of Educational Training to Workplace Practice in Saudi Arabia

“…In the light of his results, Al-Taani emphasized the necessity of involving participants in identifying their own training needs, and in planning their own training programs. Khasawneh (2004) established the relationship between the learning transfer system domain and the organizational learning domain, thus expanding their homological network. Learning transfer systems explained a significant portion of the total variance in each measure of organizational learning.…”

Validation of the Learning Transfer System Inventory: A study of supervisors in the public sector in Jordan

“…Tracey, Tannenbaum, and Kanavagh (1995) stress that administrative practices and careful planning influence transfer. However, the lack of cohesiveness between the designing and delivering of training hinders learning transfer (Bookter, 1999;Khasawneh, 2004). Although environmental and administrative factors are important for transfer, Holton and Baldwin (2000) indicate that personal factors also determine the effectiveness of transfer, such as motivation and prior experience of trainees.…”

“…Several studies validated the LTSI and concluded that the instrument is a comprehensive, valid, empirically based, cross-culturally tested, and diagnostic measure to assess learning transfer (Bates, 2001;Chen et al, 2005;Khasawneh, Bates, & Holton, 2006). After validating the instrument inside the United States, researchers validated the LTSI in several foreign countries (see, for example, Chen, 2003;Khasawneh, 2004;Khasawneh et al, 2006).…”

“…After validating the instrument inside the United States, researchers validated the LTSI in several foreign countries (see, for example, Chen, 2003;Khasawneh, 2004;Khasawneh et al, 2006). Yamnill (2001) American culture.…”