Abstract and reduced-context representations in fault-finding training

Ergonomics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-201

  Kostopoulou, O ^a   Duncan, K D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis training transfer abstract representations heuristics guided discovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; TEACHING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035190082     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130121312     Document Type: Article

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