Making Instruction Work: Or Skillbloomers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Designing and Developing Instruction That Works

Making Instruction Work simplifies the complicated task of developing instruction and gives you practical procedures for increasing its effectiveness and efficiency. It takes you step-by-step through the design and development process, providing an invaluable overview of the steps critical to achieving your instructional goals. Making Instruction Work will help you:

- Find feasible solutions to performance problems
- Develop instruction that matches the needs of your audience
- Plan evaluation of the results of instruction
- Improve existing courses
- Ensure that your students become competent in the skills you are teaching

Dr. Robert F. Mager is the most widely read, influential writer in training and education today. Over three million copies of Dr. Mager's eight books on issues of human performance have been sold worldwide, and the procedures described in his books are the basis for many of the courses in instructional design taught in American colleges and universities today. He has won numerous awards for the quality of his work, including first round inductee into Training Magazine's Hall of Fame; Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Human Resource Development, awarded by the American Society for Training and Development; and Distinguished Professional Achievement, awarded by the International Society for Performance Improvement. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology.