Task and Observer Skill Factors in Accuracy of Assessment of Performance

Abstract

A proposed measure of the perceptual organization of ongoing behavior was applied to the problem of operationalizing observer skills. Twelve experimental studies were completed. Evidence was obtained verifying that the proposed measure taps a low-level perceptual process, the subjective organization of action, and with a high degree of reliability. Further studies established that the resulting action units are true phenomenal partitions of observer experience, achieved by the discrimination of successive points of definition in the behavior stream. On the basis of these data, a conceptual model was proposed with specific, testable implications for the study of observer skill. Finally, the applicability of the model to accuracy of observer judgement was verified.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA038679

Entities

People

  • Darren Newtson

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Coding
  • Decoding
  • Instructions
  • Intelligibility
  • Mental Processes
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Observers
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Recognition
  • Recording Systems
  • Social Sciences
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Visual Perception

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Theoretical Analysis.