Goal Planning and Pursuit: Mobile Application Development and Evaluation

Abstract

This research focused on developing and evaluating mobile applications to compare two approaches for goal planning and pursuit in an Army institutional training context. One mobile application applied the Armys traditional SMART goals approach. The other applied the mental contrasting and implementation intentions approach, a streamlined version of the SMART approach. The evaluation was conducted with Noncommissioned Officers enrolled in Advanced Leaders Courses. While the mobile application development process was successful, resulting in two research products, the evaluation yielded very low response rates. Recommendations and lessons learned for the evaluation of mobile applications in an Army training context are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1017332

Entities

People

  • Jeff Horey
  • Thomas R. Graves

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Army Personnel
  • Army Training
  • Electronic Mail
  • Lessons Learned
  • Mobile Application Software
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Mobile Phones
  • Noncommissioned Officers
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Smartphones
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Training

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