Training Evaluation: A Special Issue of military Psychology

The purpose of this special issue is twofold. First, it is to document recent theories, research, methods, and approaches being developed in the area of simulation and training evaluation. The articles are a representative sample of research being conducted, primarily by the military, in training evaluations. Secondly, it is to convince those in charge of designing, delivering, implementing, and managing training systems of the value of conducting such evaluations. The editors hope that scientists and those in practice will see that additional tools and guidelines for facilitating the conduct of training evaluations are now available and that such evaluations can be "built-in" as a regular component when designing training and simulation systems. Furthermore, the editors want to encourage scientists to continue research in this area and to develop tools, methods, principles, and guidelines that practitioners can use and apply. Finally, they hope this issue launches a new era in military training--the systematic and routine conduct of training evaluations.

Table of Contents:
Volume 15, Number 1, 2002. Contents: E. Salas, C.A. Bowers, Preface to the Special Issue. E. Salas, L.M. Milham, C.A. Bowers, Training Evaluation in the Military: Misconceptions, Opportunities, and Challenges. C.A. Bowers, J.M. Hitt, II, R.M. Hoeft, S. Dunn, Training Evaluation in Evaluating Clinical Services: Why Clinicians Should Not Toss this Article in the Trash. H. Simpson, R.L. Oser, Evaluating Large-Scale Training Simulations. D.L. Riddle, M.D. Coovert, L.R. Elliott, S.G. Schiflett, Potential Contributions of Rough Sets Data Analysis to Training Evaluations. W. Bennett, Jr., G.M. Alliger, E.R. Eddy, S.I. Tannenbaum, Expanding the Training Evaluation Criterion Space: Cross Aircraft Convergence and Lessons Learned from Evaluation of the Air Force Mission Ready Technician Program. R.T. Nullmeyer, V.A. Spiker, The Importance of Crew Resource Management Behaviors in Mission Performance: Implications for Training Evaluation.