Training objective packages: enhancing the effectiveness of experiential training

摘要

Training objectives define the purpose of instructional events;attaining them is the measure of successful training. Yet, it ischallenging to apply training objectives in large, complex,multiparty military exercises. In such events it can be difficult fortrainers to determine which students were able to address theirobjectives in a given scenario-based exercise, or, in some cases,whether they were able to address any training objectives at all.A scalable, formal mechanism is required to document andmanage training objectives, their relationships to scenarioconditions, and the performance measures by which attainmentof objectives is evaluated. In this article, we describe TrainingObjective Packages and two subordinate formalisms: behaviourenvelopes, which specify the bounds on student behaviourgiven conditions, and a formal expression of performancemeasurements that includes an approach called measurementenvelopes. Each of these has value in the three phases oftraining: planning, execution, and assessment. We define theseformalisms and describe several applications and opportunitiesfor research.