• Award of Excellence

• Honorary Awards 

• Research Awards

The ISPI Awards of Excellence program is designed to showcase the people, products, innovations, and organizations that represent excellence in the field of instructional and Human Performance Technology.

Congratulations to the Awards of Excellence recipients!

Awards of Excellence Recipients

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Articles on the Award of Excellence Recipients - Award of Excellence recipients whom have contributed articles to PerformanceXpress highlighting their projects. 

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ISPI has three special honorary awards that recognize outstanding individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to human performance technology and to the Society itself. The awards are:

• The Thomas F. Gilbert Distinguished
  Professional Achievement Award
• The Honorary Life Member Award
• The Distinguished Service Award

2008 Recipients

Diane M. Gayeski, PhD
Thomas F. Gilbert Distinguished Professional Achievement Award

James A. Pershing, CPT, PhD
Honorary Life Member

Jean Strosinski, CPT
Distinguished Service Award

Past Honorary Award Recipients

Excerpts from PerformanceXpress of past Honorary Award recipients:

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Distinguished Dissertation Award Competition

The International Society for Performance Improvement
is currently accepting applications for the 2009 Distinguished Dissertation Awards. These are an
initiative funded by the Research Committee aimed at
honoring excellence in student research.

To apply for the award, please submit the following:

• A double spaced two-page (maximum) cover letter describing a) your research, b) its alignment with one or more of Human Performance Technology Standards (available at http://www.ispi.org/hpt_institute/Standards.pdf), and c) the utility of the study for both HPT scholars and practitioners.
• A 350-word (maximum) abstract describing your study’s background, purpose, research questions or objectives, importance, instrumentation, methods, findings and conclusions. Please do not submit a references list or bibliography, though any citations should be included within the text.
• An emailed letter of recommendation from your faculty advisor addressing your study’s rationale (why your topic merited investigation) and value (the applied and theoretical benefits of the study). Please ensure contact information is available.
• Your current curriculum vitae and contact information.

Please submit completed applications to Doug Leigh, Ph.D., Chair of the ISPI Research Committee, via email to dleigh@pepperdine.edu with the subject "ISPI Dissertation Award."

Awards:

Three tiers of reward accompany the awards

• 1st place $1500
• 2nd place $1000
• 3rd place $500

Limitations of Submissions:

• Only doctoral dissertation research defended between May 31, 2005 and November 30, 2008 are eligible.
• Dissertations must be defended and approved by the student's committee prior to applying for the award, and may be applied for by students of any accredited university throughout the world.
• Studies not conducted as part of dissertation research, as well as recipients of ISPI's Distinguished Dissertation Award from previous years, are not eligible.
• Applicants from prior years who did not receive the Award, however, may reapply so long as they meet all other requirements appearing in this announcement.

2008 Recipients

Timothy R. Brock, PhD of Lockheed Martin, received the 3^rd place award for his study Training NASA Astronauts for Deep Space Exploration Missions: A Research Study to Develop and Validate a Competency-Based Training Framework and was awarded a $200 honorarium.

Kimfong (Jason) Lei, PhD of JetBlue received the 2^nd place award for his study Development and Validation of a Cross-Disciplinary Team Learning Model and was awarded a $300 honorarium.

Frank Nguyen, PhD of San Diego State University received the 1^st place award for his study The Effects of an Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) and Training as Performance Interventions and was awarded a $500 honorarium.

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