Dr. Chyung and her WORC research teams have been working on projects with various topics such as:
Survey Design and Scale Development
- Evidence-based survey design
- Scale (survey instrument) development
- Testing the validity and reliability of learning and performance improvement models/instruments
Evaluation
- Training professionals’ usage and understanding of Kirkpatrick’s level 3 and level 4 evaluations
- Training and performance improvement professionals’ perspectives on ethical challenges during evaluation
- Cases studies of systematic and systemic approaches to program evaluation
Organizational Performance Improvement
- Organizational leaders’ use of employee engagement survey data
- Evidence that supports Behavior Engineering Model
- Factors that influence informal learning in the workplace
E-learning and Social Media
- Satisfying and dissatisfying factors in e-learning
- Scenario-based e-learning design and development
- Novice e-learning developers’ use of rapid e-learning development tools (e.g., Camtasia, Captivate, and Storyline)
- Practitioners’ willingness to adopt “Second Life” as a training and development tool