Learning Transfer System Inventory: evidences of validity for Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Afonso, Carolina Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Borges-Andrade, Jairo Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_62-1_8
• topic: learning; transfer of learning; factor and predictive validation; aprendizagem; transferência de aprendizagem; validação fatorial e preditiva de instrumento

Business success depends on the speed at which people can acquire and transfer new ideas and information. This study aimed to obtain factorial and predictive evidence of validity, in Brazil, of the Learning Transfer System Inventory – LTSI. Its 89 items were answered by 898 members of seven Brazilian organizations, at the end of training and development events (T&D). The exploratory factorial analysis was used, with the method of maximum verisimilitude analysis and oblique rotation. The decision on the number of extracted factors (12) was made with the parallel analysis. The factorial weight of .3 was used to decide the number of items to retain in each factor.  Cronbach´s alpha varied from .78 to .90. Between 3 and 12 months later, two instruments were used, in order to assess the impact of those events and the support for the transfer of training. Both were previously developed and validated in Brazil. Weak or moderate correlations were found between scores of these instruments and nine LTSI factors. The instrument has evidence of validity and may be used by T&D managers in Brazil.