Modeling the User for Education, Training, and Performance Aiding

Cognitive Readiness and the Challenge of Institutionalizing the “New” Versus “News”

“…The phrase cognitive readiness entered the common military lexicon approximately a decade ago, when it was cited as one of five critical research areas by the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology (Etter, 2002). Cognitive readiness describes the mental preparation an individual must establish and sustain to perform effectively in the complex and unpredictable environment of modern military operations (Etter, Foster, & Steele, 2000; Foster & Fletcher, 2003; Morrison & Fletcher, 2002). It encompasses a range of intellectual, affective, and psychosocial skills and their successful execution in stressful, ambiguous, and unpredictable conditions at both the individual and team levels (Bolstad, Cuevas, Babbitt, Semple, & Vestewig, 2006).…”

A Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Example Proposals for Army Training and Education Research

“…However, data show that the benefits of dL are minor compared to the training time and resource savings to be gained from training tailored to the needs, abilities, duty assignments and, especially, prior knowledge of learners (Foster and Fletcher, 2003;Dodds and Fletcher, 2004;Wisher and Fletcher, 2004;Fletcher, 2006). Savings and cost avoidances from dL with tailored training can reduce training time alone by 30% to 50%.…”

“…Just as with the one-on-one instruction provided by human tutors, technology used for diagnostic evaluation is based on models of the learner. The models can be qualitative or quantitative, explicit or implicit, pre-existing or constructed on the fly, but they must be available in some form to enable technology-based evaluations (Bruner, 2004;Fletcher, 1975;Foster and Fletcher, 2003).…”

New Primary Explosives Development for Medium Caliber Stab Detonators

“…The models can be qualitative or quantitative, explicit or implicit, pre-existing or constructed on the fly, but they must be available in some form to enable technology-based evaluations (Bruner, 2004;Fletcher, 1975;Foster and Fletcher, 2003).…”