This publication is for: - Small and Mid-Sized Companies -Individual (or department) responsible for providing training And the Training Providers that serve them: -Community colleges -Universities -State literacy and training programs -Labour-management organisations -Trade and professional associations -Business development centers -Private industry councils -Non-profit organisations -Private consulting firms This guide provides instructions for assessing a single training program, rather than a training department in a company, or a training provider. It can be used to determine whether training results match training goals, whether training dollars are being well spent, and how training programs might be improved. It is divided into 4 sections: -This Guide in Context - Lays out the entire training process and identifies how and where this guide can help you in that process. -Introduction - Defines evaluation and explains its value. -Designing and Implementing a Training Evaluation - Describes how to design a training evaluation and how data may be collected and analysed. -Appendices - Contains lists of training evaluation resources, the Collaborative's Board and Councils, and the Collaborative's products and services.

Gathers in one place descriptions of NIST's many programs, products, services, and research projects, along with contact names, phone numbers, and e-mail and World Wide Web addresses for further information. It is divided into chapters covering each of NIST's major operating units. In addition, each chapter on laboratory programs includes subheadings for NIST organizational division or subject areas. Covers: electronics and electrical engineering; manufacturing engineering; chemical science and technology; physics; materials science and engineering; building and fire research and information technology.

Established by Congress in 1901, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has a long and distinguished history as the custodian and disseminator of the United States' standards of physical measurement. Having reached its centennial anniversary, the NBS/NIST reflects on and celebrates its first century with this book describing some of its seminal contributions to science and technology. Within these pages are 102 vignettes that describe some of the Institute's classic publications. Each vignette relates the context in which the publication appeared, its impact on science, technology, and the general public, and brief details about the lives and work of the authors. The groundbreaking works depicted include: A breakthrough paper on laser-cooling of atoms below the Doppler limit, which led to the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics to William D. Phillips The official report on the development of the radio proximity fuse, one of the most important new weapons of World War II The 1932 paper reporting the discovery of deuterium in experiments that led to Harold Urey's1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry A review of the development of the SEAC, the first digital computer to employ stored programs and the first to process images in digital form The first paper demonstrating that parity is not conserved in nuclear physics, a result that shattered a fundamental concept of theoretical physics and led to a Nobel Prize for T. D. Lee and C. Y. Yang "Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor," a 1995 paper that has already opened vast new areas of research A landmark contribution to the field of protein crystallography by Wlodawer and coworkers on the use of joint x-ray and neutron diffraction to determine the structure of proteins