Challenge: An Experimental Computer Program for Research on Organizing Knowledge to Improve Retention and Application
Abstract
This effort is a portion of work initiated in response to guidance from the 1983 TRADOC Commander's Conference which emphasized the need to improve officers capability to think, plan and decide in developing an operations concept. At the request of the US Army Armor School, ARI conducted an analysis of the Armor Officer Basic Course (AOBC) to identify actions the School could initiate to accomplish this objective. A major conclusion of this analysis was that student officers were having difficulty in absorbing and organizing the large amount of information presented for application to tactical operations. ARI's recommendation, indorsed by the Armor School, led to the development of computer-tutors to train student officers to apply the types of cognitive strategies needed to organize tactical knowledge for application. These computer-tutors are interactive videodisk programs that are scheduled to undergo trail implementation at the Armor School during the first 9 months of 1988. The CHALLENGE program, described in this report, was developed as an experimental technique for evaluating the effectiveness of the interactive videodisk programs in improving organization of the student officers' tactical knowledge. CHALLENGE us a theoretically based program developed for the purpose of capturing and depicting organization of the student's knowledge of a selected knowledge domain.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA190629
Entities
People
- Peter J. Legree
- Richard P. Kern
Organizations
- U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences