DARPA Education Dominance Program: April 2010 and November 2010 Digital Tutor Assessments

Abstract

This report presents findings from two assessments of the Digital Tutor (DT) being developed by the Education Dominance Program, which is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The DT is intended to provide initial specialized skill training ("A" school and some additional "C" school training) for the Navy's Information Systems Technology (IT) rating. These assessments measured knowledge and skills of DT students and compared them with those of IT students trained by other means. Even though the DT was only partly finished, it was found to have produced substantially greater IT capabilities in less time than other training programs currently in use. Some of these differences exceeded two standard deviations in magnitude, and in one case, the difference was well above four standard deviations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA542215

Entities

People

  • John Dexter Fletcher

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Military Operations
  • Military Training
  • New York
  • Operating Systems
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • STEM Education