Young, Showing H. with Sy-Feng Wang, Jenshou Yang, "Overcoming the Learning Barriers of Management Flight Simulators: Task Salience and the Dissociation between Performance and Learning", 1994
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Recent experimental studies in managementflight simulators showed a dissociation between task performance and learning:subjects’ performance was significantly improved through practice, but verylittle deeper learning was detected. A theoretical framework is developed toexplain the dissociation. That is, the cognitive strategies really used bysubjects, e.g. Situations matching, feedback control and feedforward control are different from the normative cognitive strategy ofmental model simulation expected by researchers. Methods to overcome thedissociation are suggested and demonstrated by two experimental studies. Basedon the discussion and the experimental results, we found that considerations ofcognitive strategies and task salience are very important dimensions fordesigning effective learning environment of management flight simulators.