COGNITIVE FACTORS IN LEARNING AND RETENTION OF PROCEDURAL TASKS
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Abstract
Procedural tasks, the most important and necessary type of task for Navy mission readiness, consist of an ordered sequence of steps or operations performed on a single object or in a specific situation. They involve few decisions, are generally performed the same way every time, and performance skills are frequently not well retained. Naval personnel must maintain high levels of procedural skill and knowledge to be able to perform their jobs successfully. This document reports on a study that was conducted to develop a taxonomy of qualitative explanations for teaching procedural tasks and for testing the effects of qualitative explanations on learning, initial performance, and retention of an assembly procedural task.