512 Pages
by
Routledge
512 Pages
by
Routledge
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Safety critical jobs in fields such as aviation and nuclear power plants require a careful and comprehensive analysis of all factors relevant to critical job performance. Understanding how these factors uniquely and in combination, affect performance requires interconnecting a job performance database with several other information databases. The scientific method is necessary to ensure... Read more
Contents: Overview and introduction; Basic data quality; Scientific data quality; Evaluating theories; Solving problems with a SIS; Structural modeling methods; Dynamic modeling based on states and events; Dynamic modeling based on functions; Personnel selection and evaluation with a SIS; Personal training with a SIS; Analyzing the job context; Information management; Bibliography.
Biography
Dr. Robert W. Holt is Professor at the Human Factors and Applied Cognition Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He has pursued group and individual research over several years culminating in pilot/crew research with the FAA. This text combines his psychological research and computer science applications training with the FAA research experiences. He obtained an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 1990, specializing in modeling and artificial intelligence, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Social and Quantitative Psychology.
