The Implementation of a Confidence-based Assessment Tool Within an Aviation Training Program
Description:
Traditional use of the multiple-choice question rewards a student for guessing. This technique encourages rote memorization of questions to pass a lengthy exam, and does not promote comprehensive understanding or subject correlation. This begs the question; do we really want question memorizers to operate the machinery of our industrialized society? In an effort to identify guessing on answers during an exam within a safety-critical aviation pilot training course, a qualitative research study w…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Novacek, Paul F.
Partner:
UNT Libraries