2009 Award of Excellence
RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE: 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. The entire process is made up of
four phases:
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Submission
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Evaluation
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Recognition
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Mentoring
Review each phase below to learn more.
The deadline to submit nominations for 2009 is October 27, 2008.
Award presentations will be made at THE Performance Improvement Conference, April 19-22, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
User Tip: The Submission Packets below are Word documents. To download these packets to your computer, please right click on the link and select "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Netscape), and copy this file to your computer.
Please note, Word files may be difficult to open from your browser when your Internet connection bandwidth is low. Please download the file to your computer and then open it from there.
Select which Award category you want to enter (see below); and submit a comprehensive Submission Packet and Application Form.
User Tip: If this is the first time you've considered submitting your work for an award, we suggest that you send an email to awards@ispi.org requesting a mentor to advise you as you PLAN your project and, later, as you draft your submission. We will find a previous award winner to guide you through the process.
Completing the criteria-referenced Award Submission is the most rigorous component of the process, requiring the most time, effort, and thoroughness on the part of you and/or your team/Chapter. Because of the rigor required, take time to review carefully each question/requirement on the appropriate Submission template before you begin. Do a quick check and ask yourself if you can document how you completed each requirement. If there are requirements you and your team/chapter did not complete, you must be able to justify why not.
Descriptions of the Award categories and links to Submission Packets are below. The Submission Packets include both instructions and an application form. Please download and carefully complete each part of the Submission Packet.
Outstanding Human Performance Intervention: recognizes outstanding results derived from the successful application of Human Performance Technology to human performance problems, needs, or opportunities. Outstanding Human Performance Communication: recognizes an outstanding article, book, or curriculum, course, or workshop that enables individuals or organizations to achieve excellence in Human Performance Technology. Outstanding Research/Student Research: recognizes outstanding research in the field of Human Performance Technology or a related field such as Adult Education, Human Technology, Behavioral Psychology, or Vocational Education. Chapter of Merit: celebrates the accomplishments of local ISPI Chapters that have been chartered for one year preceding the awards nomination deadline
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NOTICE Please send an email to awards@ispi.org to notify us of your intent to submit your project for an award. Please include the following in the Subject line, "Non-Binding Intent Award," and indicate the Award category in the body of the email. We use your non-binding email for two purposes:
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When you and your team/Chapter are ready to submit your completed Submission Packet and Application Form, you must:
- Email the completed electronic version of your Submission Package and Application Form to awards@ispi.org.
- Ship 5 copies of any supporting documentation/intervention necessary to support your proposal to ISPI Headquarters.
Ship all materials to ISPI Headquarters:
ISPI Awards of Excellence
1400 Spring Street, Suite 260
Silver Spring, MD 20910-2753
USA
If you have any questions, call 1-301-587-8570 or email awards@ispi.org.
The submission deadline for the 2009 Awards is October 27, 2008.
If we do not receive your submissions by the published deadline date, we will NOT consider it for an award. We will return it to you if you've provided adequate postage. Otherwise, we destroy it after notifying you.
When we receive your Submission Package, we sort it into the appropriate category with other similar submissions. On the day following the deadline, we distribute your submission to the assigned evaluators. The evaluators will use the same criteria to evaluate your submission that you found in your Submission Package.
When the evaluators evaluate your submission, they use a structured checklist that contains the same questions/criteria that you used when creating your proposal. We highly recommend that you number your appendix pages (and the pages of any attached supporting documentation) and refer to your referents by title, page number, paragraph, and illustration/table number so that the evaluators don't have to hunt for them. If they cannot easily find the substantiating evidence, they will mark the criterion deficient.
If the evaluators agree that your submission meets all of the criteria, we will place your work on the Awards Recipient List and notify you.
If the documentation in your submission does NOT satisfy the evaluator's judgment against one or more of the criteria, we will notify you that you will NOT receive an award. You will have one week to email a request for an explanation, which we will provide to you by return email. The explanation will include the specific criteria/criterion that the evaluator's judged to be deficient and any comments they may have made.
- If you AGREE with the evaluators,
and if the 3-year limitation will not have passed by the next
submission deadline, you can re-submit your revised work to the
Awards of Excellence Committee the following year.
- If you do NOT AGREE with the evaluators, and you want us to re-consider your work for an Award this year, you may file an appeal. Appeals must be filed by email and follow the instructions for the Awards of Excellence appeal process, which will be included with your letter of notification.
The appropriate Category Chair, or in some cases, the Awards of Excellence Chair, will review your appeal. If, in the judgment of the Chair, your appeal is compelling, the Chair will resolve the conflict or correct an egregious error. The Chair will notify you of the final decision, from which there is no further appeal.
If your evaluator-peers determine that you are to receive an Awards of Excellence, the Society will recognize you and your exemplary work in the following ways:
- We will publish your Award of Excellence, along with the names of all your team members, in our official ISPI publications.
- We will display your submission package with your name(s) at the Awards of Excellence kiosk during
the next Performance Improvement
Conference. If client confidentiality is a concern, you will need to
provide a mock-up or alternative.
- If you attend The
Performance Improvement Conference, we will recognize you and your
client at a special Awards luncheon for all conference attendees, during
which the ISPI Awards Ceremony will take place. If you attend the
Luncheon, we will ask you to come on stage to be recognized and to
receive a personalized plaque. The purpose of the annual Awards luncheon
is solely to honor your accomplishment as an exemplar of ISPI.
- When you attend the conference, we will give you an "AWARD RECIPIENT" ribbon to attach to your conference nametag to let everyone know that you are an accomplished performer. Expect attendees to ask you about your project.
Submitting and actually winning an ISPI Award of Excellence is a major accomplishment in any professional's life. The learning curve is steep, and the process itself is rigorous and can be daunting for a first timer.
As a pro bono contribution to your profession, ISPI may ask you in a subsequent year to mentor a first-time submitter in the same category as your award. That person or team will have requested a mentor.
You will consult with the submitter by telephone or email as they plan their project. Later, the submitter may ask you to review and comment on their draft submission. However, the rules prevent you from writing or editing any portion of their submission. Under normal circumstances, we expect that mentoring will not require more than six hours of your time, but you are not obligated to limit yourself to that level of effort.
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