Management of exercise-based training process

Operational skills are nearly always taught or trained by exercises as training exercises provide a major means for combining declarative and procedural knowledge into practical skills. The individualised training potential in an exercise-based training system is significantly affected by the ability to produce coherent and appropriate exercises which best suit the student. This paper characterises the exercise-based training process in a simulation environment as a cycle of four phases: identifying training goals, generating an appropriate exercise, executing the exercise and evaluating the student´s performance. A specific training process is presented in the context of air traffic controller training, which tailors the tasks/problems presented in the training exercise to facilitate the mastery of specific goals/topics to individual learners. Relevant issues such as the evaluation of the student´s performance, the identification of new training goals and the generation of a new exercise are described respectively