Training Maintenance Technicians for Troubleshooting: Two Experiments with Computer Simulations
通过两项实验，比较传统教学与两种计算机模拟在航空发动机故障排除培训中的效果，发现低中保真度模拟的组合能提供足够的解决问题经验，与传统教学效果相当。
Aviation maintenance trainees participated in two experiments designed to assess the relative effectiveness of traditional instruction versus two types of computer simulation in the context of aircraft power-plant troubleshooting. Simulations ranged in nature from abstract, context-free problems to those involving specific aircraft power plants. Traditional instruction included reading assignments, television programs tailored to aircraft power-plant troubleshooting, and on-line quizzes. The first experiment compared the three training methods, and the second considered a mixture of the two computer simulations versus traditional instruction. The primary conclusion was that an appropriate combination of low- and moderate-fidelity computer simulations can provide sufficient problem-solving experience to be competitive with the more traditional lectureldemonstration form of instruction.