Design and Use of Information Systems for Automated on-the-Job Training. Volume III. Experimental Use of Three Instructional Concepts

摘要

The report describes three experiments in which novel teaching concepts were demonstrated. These concepts had been proposed in previous reports but their effectiveness remained to be verified experimentally. The results were: (1) A teaching program ordered according to the discovery principle significantly reduced errors and performance time over that observed after training with a conventional training manual. (2) Slides projected directly onto a control console, together with a taped lecture, were found to be an effective method of presenting an automated training program. (3) Graphical logical flow diagrams were found to be efficient instructions for teaching procedures for performing a querying-reasoning task. It was concluded that these concepts should be exploited in training programs for operators of Air Force Information Systems. (Author)