Dynamic Task Selection in Aviation Training

While the aviation domain is exemplary for its complex cognitive skills, the pace of automation steadily increases making it crucial to train people as effectively as possible. Over the last three decades training programs have evolved a strong focus on personalized dynamic whole-tasks. Adapting training to the individual student’s progress is believed to be strongly related to increased training efficiency (Salden, Paas, & van Merriënboer, 2006). Four studies investigated a variety of personalized training methods. Results confirm the hypothesis that personalized instruction can have beneficial effects for the training of complex cognitive skills.