Predicting cognitive readiness of deploying military medical teams

Bolstad, Cheryl A.; Cuevas, Haydee M.; Costello, Anthony; Babbitt, Bettina A.

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“…Cognitive readiness is a multi-dimensional construct that is formed and maintained when personnel interact with other team members within their operational environment and, thus, involves a broad range of cognitive, behavioral, and attitudinal factors (Bolstad, Cuevas, Costello, & Babbitt, 2008). Consequently, determining if personnel are cognitively ready to perform their jobs poses a considerable challenge to organizations in both the private and public sectors.…”

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“…Cognitive readiness is applicable to any dynamic domain in which individuals and teams must perform increasingly complex tasks under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and high consequences for error. These domains include, but are not limited to, military operations, aviation and aerospace, Homeland Security, law enforcement, and emergency response (e.g., first responders, firefighters, emergency medical technicians).Cognitive readiness is a multi-dimensional construct that is formed and maintained when personnel interact with other team members within their operational environment and, thus, involves a broad range of cognitive, behavioral, and attitudinal factors (Bolstad, Cuevas, Costello, & Babbitt, 2008). Consequently, determining if personnel are cognitively ready to perform their jobs poses a considerable challenge to organizations in both the private and public sectors.…”

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Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments: Advances in Theory and Practice

Cuevas

Schmorrow

2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Cognitive readiness refers to the mental preparation (including knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes) an individual needs to establish and sustain competent performance in complex and unpredictable operational environments (Morrison & Fletcher, 2002). Over the past decade, the scientific research community has endeavored to optimize human performance in complex domains through a better understanding of the cognitive, behavioral, and attitudinal aspects of cognitive readiness, at both the individual and team level. The goal of this symposium is to add to this growing body of work by presenting the latest advances in cognitive readiness research in terms of both theory development and practical applications across domains. SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEWCognitive readiness refers to the mental preparation (including knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes) an individual needs to establish and sustain competent performance in complex and unpredictable operational environments (Morrison & Fletcher, 2002). Cognitive readiness is applicable to any dynamic domain in which individuals and teams must perform increasingly complex tasks under conditions of uncertainty, time pressure, and high consequences for error. These domains include, but are not limited to, military operations, aviation and aerospace, Homeland Security, law enforcement, and emergency response (e.g., first responders, firefighters, emergency medical technicians).Cognitive readiness is a multi-dimensional construct that is formed and maintained when personnel interact with other team members within their operational environment and, thus, involves a broad range of cognitive, behavioral, and attitudinal factors (Bolstad, Cuevas, Costello, & Babbitt, 2008). Consequently, determining if personnel are cognitively ready to perform their jobs poses a considerable challenge to organizations in both the private and public sectors. The scientific research community will play a vital role in addressing this issue through research aimed at achieving a better understanding of the factors underlying cognitive readiness, as well as on how best to apply this understanding to develop valid measures to assess cognitive readiness and to design tools and training programs to mitigate any deficiencies identified. Symposium ObjectiveAccordingly, as the title implies, the objective of this symposium is to present the latest advances in cognitive readiness research in terms of both theory development and practical applications across domains. The symposium presentations will address several issues associated with the following topic areas:  Models of Cognitive Readiness: validation of qualitative theoretical and quantitative computational models.  Measuring Cognitive Readiness: methodologies, tools, and techniques for both individual and team assessment.  Training Cognitive Readiness: training and mitigation strategies, embedded training, scenario-based training, etc. for both individuals and teams.  Decision-Support Technologies: intelligent decision aids, embedded agent ca...

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Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments: Advances in Theory and Practice

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Schmorrow

2012

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“…As such, measures of team cognitive readiness must also be investigated. Some attention has been paid to the cognitive readiness of teams (e.g., Martin-Milham & Fiore, 2004;Bolstad, Cuevas, Costello, & Babbitt, 2008), but given the importance and prevalence of teams in military operations, more is needed.…”

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Defining and Measuring Military Cognitive Readiness

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Fletcher

Morrison

2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Over the past ten years, we have been examining the construct of military cognitive readiness. This investigation began by tentatively defining what is meant by the term. This definition included identifying the component constructs of military cognitive readiness. The next steps are to develop measurement operations that can be used to further the research and definition of the construct as well as its application in measuring military readiness. This paper reviews the work we have done thus far and documents the questions that still need to be addressed.

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“…Thus, operators have to adapt acquired skills to novel situations, referred to as adaptive transfer (Ivancic & Hesketh, 2000). Adaptive transfer is needed "if skill components have to be applied to dynamic, complex and unpredictable situations (Bolstad, Cuevas, Costello, & Babbitt, 2008) that have not been previously encountered (Ivancic & Hesketh, 2000)" (Kluge & Burkolter,in press,p. 11).…”

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“Being prepared for the infrequent”: A comparative study of two refresher training approaches and their effects on temporal and adaptive transfer in a process control task

Kluge

Burkolter

Frank

2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Operators working with highly automated technical systems face the challenge of skill retention due to few opportunities to apply the skills they acquired during initial training. Therefore, the use of refresher training is common in many high-risk environments. However, so far, the design and effectiveness of refresher training has not been focused on in training and human factors related research. We compared two refresher training approaches-practice and symbolic rehearsal-to a control group without refresher training. Fifty-nine engineering students were trained for one hour on a simulated process control task. A week later, the practice group completed four trials with the simulated task and the symbolic rehearsal group underwent four trials in written form. The final testing session took place two weeks after initial training. Refresher training was effective for temporal transfer, with the practice refresher group performing significantly better than the symbolic rehearsal group.

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Predicting cognitive readiness of deploying military medical teams

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Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments: Advances in Theory and Practice

Exploring Cognitive Readiness in Complex Operational Environments: Advances in Theory and Practice

Defining and Measuring Military Cognitive Readiness

“Being prepared for the infrequent”: A comparative study of two refresher training approaches and their effects on temporal and adaptive transfer in a process control task

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