Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Training Devices: Literature Review and Preliminary Model

Training Procedures for Enhancing Reserve Component Learning, Retention, and Transfer

“…In contrast, observation of negative transfer depends primarily on how one defines it (Holding, 1965(Holding, , 1976. On the one hand, if an overall decrement in transfer task performance is required for negative transfer, then the following conclus!ons are justified: negative transfer is difficult to produce, when produced occurs in negligible amounts, and rapidly converts to positive transfer (Bilodeau & Bilodeau, 1961).…”

Instructional control and part/whole-task training: A review of the literature and an experimental comparison of strategies applied to instructional simulation.

“…Part-and Whole-Task Training Part-task strategies appear to be most appropriate when (a) time on practice activities is limited, (b) the criterion task consists of subtasks that are highly integrated--performance on one subtask affects performance on another subtask or on the entire task, or (c) learners lack prior knowledge of the task being taught (Adams, 1960;Brggs & Naylor, 1962;Holding, 1965;Naylor, 1962;Wheaton, Rose, Fingerman, Korotkin, & Holding, 1976;Wightman & Lintem, 1985).…”

A Meta-Analysis of the Flight Simulator Training Research

“…Although several task taxonomies have been developed (see e.g,, Wheaton et al,, 1976;Fleishman & Quaintanoe, 1984), none were found to be appropriate for use in aviation tasks, The findings reported here are only an initial step toward fulfilling the goal of extracting empirically-based design guidance principles, because detailed information on the training device used is not routinely reported in research reports, As a result, the level of analysis possible from available information may be too global to be of immediate use by engineers and other simulator design specialists.…”