Methods for Conducting Cognitive Task Analysis for a Decision Making Task.

Cognitive task analysis CTA improves traditional task analysis procedures by analyzing the thought processes of performers while they complete a task. For this report, we have selected several of the measures for which we found differences in experts and novices and have detailed the procedures for using these methods to conduct a CTA for domains which involve critical decision making tasks in naturalistic settings. The cognitive task analysis methods that we describe are 1 development of a task process model, 2 development of an information flow model, 3 misconceptions analysis, and 4 structural knowledge analysis. For each of these methods we describe how information is gathered knowledge elicitation, how it is represented in a format that can be later used in designing training knowledge representation, and how the knowledge can be used in developing training.