Marcia has developed a training program for the office workers in her company. She has also developed 5 criterion measures to evaluate how effective the training program is. Marcia wants to understand, in detail, how effective the training program is. Her boss, the HR director, just wants to know if the training worked or not. Most likely, Marcia is interested in treating the measures as ____, whereas her boss would want to see ____.

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Marcia is interested in the detailed effectiveness of the training program, which suggests she wants to look at each of the 5 criterion measures separately, treating them as multiple criteria. Her boss, on the other hand, is interested in a simple yes or no answer to whether the training worked, indicating a preference for a composite score that summarizes the effectiveness of the training into a single measure.

Marcia Has Developed a Training Program for the Office Workers