Measurement of the Behavioural, Cognitive, and Motivational Factors Underlying Team Performance

Abstract

In the military the use of teams to perform complex work functions is pervasive. Team performance is therefore critical, across a range of work contexts, for fulfilling operational requirements. To understand team performance, it is necessary to measure team performance. Valid and reliable measurement of the variables underlying effective team performance is fundamental to both team training and team training research, as it enables the determination of the strengths and weaknesses of teams, the design of targeted training programs, the provision of constructive feedback, and the evaluation of training effectiveness. This report presents, for the first time in a single resource, an overview of both the variables underlying effective team performance and the ways in which these variables have been operationalised and measured in the research literature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476917

Entities

People

  • Christopher Best
  • Christopher D. Sutton
  • Christopher Shanahan
  • Melanie Finch

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Information Exchange
  • Instructors
  • Judgment
  • Measurement
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.