Development of a Subjective Evaluation Tool for Assessing Marksmanship Training Effectiveness

Abstract

All U.S. Marines must qualify as marksman; as a result the training demand on live fire rifle ranges is significant. Marksmanship simulators such as the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer (ISMT) may help relieve some of this pressure on traditional ranges, but the training effectiveness of such systems must be evaluated and verified. The goal of the current effort was to develop a subjective survey for evaluating marksmanship training systems, as a possible alternative to lengthy and resource-demanding training effectiveness evaluations. A task analytic approach was used to break down the marksmanship domain, as presented in the USMC Rifle Marksmanship Manual, into sub-tasks that were converted into training-task statements which were arranged into a survey format. The survey asked USMC marksmanship instructors to rate each task statement on Importance, Difficulty, Known Distance (KD) Range Training Effectiveness, and ISMT Training Effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 28, 2013
Accession Number
ADA580395

Entities

People

  • C. Kirkendall
  • E. Robinson
  • H. Williams

Organizations

  • Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Biomedical Research
  • Data Sets
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Operations
  • Protective Masks
  • Psychology
  • Simulators
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States Government
  • Wind Velocity

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.