Accession Number:

ADA172210

Title:

Application of Transfer Forecast Methods to Armor Training Devices

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Aug 1981-Jan 1983

Corporate Author:

HUMAN RESOURCES RESEARCH ORGANIZATION ALEXANDRIA VA

Personal Author(s):

• Harris, James H.
• Ford, Patrick
• Tufano, Daniel R.
• Wiggs, Cheri

Report Date:

1985-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

211.0

Abstract:

The report is part of a research program by the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences to develop analytic tools for estimating training device effectiveness. To date, four analytic models under the heading TRAINVICE have been developed, but their validity is still in question because predictor and criterion measurements available for validation studies are few. The authors of this report were able to get these measurements from transfer-of-training data gathered on fur training devices during the operational testing of an MK-60 gunnery trainer, the Videodisc Integrated Gunnery Simulator VIGS. The findings indicate that TRAINVICE scores were reasonably consistent for each particular model between raters. However, particular components variables of each model showed low agreement between raters. The authors suggest that future research on transfer forecast models increase the reliability of the predictor measures, improve the criterion measurement environment, and determine the scale properties of the models.

Descriptors:

• *TRAINING DEVICES
• AGREEMENTS
• ARMOR
• ARMY RESEARCH
• BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
• DISK RECORDING SYSTEMS
• ENVIRONMENTS
• FORECASTING
• FUR
• GUNNERY
• INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• MEASUREMENT
• MODELS
• OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
• PARTS
• PREDICTIONS
• RELIABILITY
• SCALE
• SIMULATORS
• SOCIAL SCIENCES
• TEST AND EVALUATION
• TRAINING
• TRANSFER
• VALIDATION
• VARIABLES
• VIDEO RECORDING

Subject Categories:

• Humanities and History

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE