Training individuals for distributed teams: Problem solving assessment for distributed mission research

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 729-744

  Fiore, Stephen M ^a   Cuevas, Haydee M ^a   Scielzo, Sandro ^a   Salas, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Card sorts; Distributed teams; Knowledge structures; Mental models; Metacognition; Problem solving; Synthetic task environments

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED ASSESSMENT;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036836629     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(02)00027-4     Document Type: Article

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