SBIR Phase I: Cognitive Agility Assessment Tool

SBIR 第一阶段：认知敏捷性评估工具

• 批准号: 0441737
• 负责人: Lia DiBello
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Workplace Technologies Research Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0441737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Cognitive; Agility; Assessment

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project concerns the development of an assessment tool that will enable users to profile a decision-maker's cognitive agility and expertise in high-level business situations. It is appropriate for evaluating decision makers in organizations and for evaluating students. It is based on results from WTRI's recent basic research that has uncovered mechanisms that may be involved in the determination of business expertise. It uses knowledge elicitation technology that WTRI has developed over several years to support research on the identification of intuitive expertise (in the sense of Dreyfus, 1997). The project outlines a plan to develop an on-line internet based version that is self-scoring and has been tested among well-known experts. The product will also be field-tested for its ability to predict general vs. industry specific expertise. The expected outcome is an easy to administer technology that can used by professional evaluators, professors, students or individuals and will assist in staff development and education. The profiles of expertise generated by the product will identify hidden strengths, areas of weakness, and suggestions for further development. A long-term goal is to create versions that can be distributed by qualified resellers and universities. In the current climate of rapid workplace change, decision-makers need to continually evaluate their ability to adapt to changes and re-invent their organization's value and competitive future. Few assessment tools address the cognitive underpinnings involved in the skill set involved. Rather, they evaluate personal traits or sub-skills that have some correlation with leadership, broadly defined. Using an empirically verified model of expertise in business strategy development and performance prediction, WTRI has built an assessment tool that locates an individual against this model, much like chess players are evaluated against a notion of a Chess Grand Master. When applied to individual client situations, this tool has shown itself to have powerful predictive capability and has successfully informed staff development efforts. Its distinctive feature is assessment of the ability to analyze disparate sources of information in order to make strategy level decisions and supporting tactical plans. Making it more widely available and usable by non-scientists would greater contribute to efforts to increase the performance of both organizations and decision makers. Organizations, distributors and several institutions of higher learning have expressed interest in this project to address what they consider to be an unmet need area.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目涉及的评估工具，将使用户能够配置决策者的认知敏捷性和专业知识，在高层次的业务情况的发展。 它适用于评估组织中的决策者和评估学生。 它是基于WRI最近的基础研究的结果，该研究发现了可能参与确定业务专长的机制。 它使用WRI几年来开发的知识启发技术，以支持关于识别直觉专长的研究（Dreyfus，1997年）。 该项目概述了一项计划，即开发一个基于互联网的在线版本，该版本是自我评分的，并已在知名专家中进行了测试。该产品还将进行现场测试，以确定其预测一般与行业特定专业知识的能力。 预期成果是一种易于管理的技术，可供专业评估人员、教授、学生或个人使用，并将有助于工作人员的发展和教育。 该产品产生的专门知识简介将确定隐藏的优势、薄弱领域和进一步发展的建议。 长期目标是创建可由合格经销商和大学分发的版本。在当前工作场所快速变化的环境中，决策者需要不断评估他们适应变化的能力，并重新创造组织的价值和竞争未来。 很少有评估工具涉及所涉技能组合的认知基础。 相反，他们评估的是与广义的领导力有某种相关性的个人特质或子技能。 WRI使用经过经验验证的商业战略开发和业绩预测专业知识模型，建立了一个评估工具，根据该模型定位个人，就像国际象棋选手根据国际象棋大师的概念进行评估一样。 在应用于个别客户的情况时，这一工具显示出强大的预测能力，并成功地为工作人员的发展工作提供了信息。 它的显著特点是评估分析不同信息来源的能力，以便做出战略决策和支持战术计划。 让非科学人员更广泛地获得和使用这一信息，将更有助于提高各组织和决策者的业绩。 一些组织、经销商和几所高等院校都表示对这一项目感兴趣，以解决他们认为尚未满足的需求领域。