PROCEEDINGS of the HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY- 22nd ANNUAL MEETING- 1978 ANALYZING TRAINING DEVICE EFFECTIVENESS IN CASES WHERE TEST DATA IS INCONCLUSIVE

Budgetary and time cons t ra in ts continue to t u r n the t r a i n e r toward the use of simula-Sophisticated devices engineered to simulate t i v e devices in designing t ra in ing programs. often complex man-machine in te r faces usually a re major investments fo r the Government Agency or Corporation who use them. How can the user ensure tha t the device i s, in f a c t, worth the investment? The obvious answer t o the question i s t o conduct prototype tes t ing using representative students t o measure the degree of Training Transfer. Testing re-quires a fur ther substantial investment, however, i n terms of both time and money. In many cases, proper t e s t data i s j u s t n o t available. Can device effectiveness be measure