Accession Number:

ADA125376

Title:

An Approach to Fidelity in Training Simulation

Descriptive Note:

Research note

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Freda, Jon S.
• Ozkaptan, Halim

Report Date:

1980-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

This paper presents some ideas concerning the development of fidelity recommendations in training simulation. Fidelity is a major issue partly due to an increasing concern that the amountkind of fidelity incorporated in devices and simulators, as currently requested by the Army training schools, may not result in cost effective transfer of training. The approach of this paper is as follows first, Army training programs are organized within a two-dimensional matrix within which training simulation is delimited second, definitions, assumptions, and constraints underlying fidelity are discussed and finally, a conceptual analysis which distinguishes between-media selection from within- media selection is presented. Within-media selection is viewed as an extension of Block III of Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development IPISD, 1975, and is discussed in the form of a set of procedures to guide the selection of the appropriate amount of fidelity.

Descriptors:

• *SIMULATORS
• *TRAINING DEVICES
• *HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
• *TRANSFER OF TRAINING
• REQUIREMENTS
• SIMULATION
• ENVIRONMENTS
• DECISION MAKING
• STRATEGY
• ARMY TRAINING
• PSYCHOMOTOR FUNCTION
• INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
• TEACHING METHODS
• OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
• FORMATS
• MAPPING
• MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS
• LEARNING
• SELECTION
• SENSES(PHYSIOLOGY)
• INFORMATION PROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Humanities and History
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE