Title

Training individuals for distributed teams: problem solving assessment for distributed mission research

Authors

Authors

S. M. Fiore; H. M. Cuevas; S. Scielzo;E. Salas

Abbreviated Journal Title

Comput. Hum. Behav.

Keywords

problem solving; knowledge structures; mental models; metacognition; card sorts; distributed teams; synthetic task environments; METACOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; STUDENT; Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Psychology, Experimental

Abstract

In this paper we describe an effort investigating the feasibility and utility of cognitively diagnostic assessment of problem solving when training for distributed team tasks. We utilized computer-based knowledge elicitation methods to assess both relational problem solving, requiring the semantic integration of concepts, and dynamic problem solving, requiring the ability to integrate and apply these concepts. Additionally, we addressed how metacognitive processes interact with learning outcomes when training for complex synthetic task environments. We find first, that multiple methods of assessing problem solving performance are diagnostic of knowledge acquisition for a complex synthetic team task, and second, that general metacomprehension predisposition is related to metacomprehension accuracy in synthetic task environments. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Computers in Human Behavior

Volume

18

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

729

Last Page

744

WOS Identifier

WOS:000178646600010

ISSN

0747-5632

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