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TANDEM radar-tracking simulation training task with 2x2x2 fully crossed experimental design (N = 350)

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Description

The study's training task is TANDEM, a PC-based radar-tracking simulation requiring basic skills (hooking contacts, collecting information, classification subdecisions) and strategic skills (monitoring and prioritizing contacts approaching two defensive perimeters). Participants were 350 undergraduates trained in a single three-hour session; the study "employed a 2 (exploratory learning vs. proceduralized instruction) x 2 (error-encouragement framing vs. error-avoidance framing) x 2 (emotion-control strategy vs. no emotion-control strategy) fully crossed between-subjects design" with random assignment to the eight conditions.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Training manipulations are removed before the two transfer trials so performance reflects skill acquisition rather than the manipulations

Constraints

  • Transfer was measured within the same session immediately after training, not on a delayed or workplace transfer task

Target Learners

  • undergraduate psychology students at a large Midwestern university

Learning Goals

  • operating a complex dynamic simulation task
  • basic and strategic task knowledge
  • adaptive transfer performance

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Key Sources

  • Bell, B. S., & Kozlowski, S. W. J. (2008). Active learning: Effects of core training design elements on self-regulatory processes, learning, and adaptability. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(2), 296-316. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/410/
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type design
id tandem-radar-simulation-2x2x2-active-learning-experiment
title TANDEM radar-tracking simulation training task with 2x2x2 fully crossed experimental design (N = 350)
description The study's training task is TANDEM, a PC-based radar-tracking simulation requiring basic skills (hooking contacts, collecting information, classification subdecisions) and strategic skills (monitoring and prioritizin...
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