HAZMAT Training Using a Problem-based Methodology and Serious Games Approach

描述（由申请人提供）：HAZMAT响应团队在日益复杂的认知，精神压力，身体疲劳和危险的环境中工作。然而，培训需要包括更快和直接获得新技术，为第一反应者提供更多的业务培训，并提供实际操作和模拟环境。第一阶段的工作旨在满足这一需求。拟议的努力将集中在三个领域的可行性研究：1）培训方法; 2）模拟游戏的方法，危险品培训;和3）教学设计创作支持。这将支持应用先进的培训技术，利用先进的技术，通过解决危险物质应对小组的复杂问题来发展专门知识。这不仅将影响目前提供的培训类型，而且将成为其他危险品培训领域的重要模式。 为了实现这些目标，一个综合的研究设计将包括定性和定量的研究方法。本研究的总体目标是确定使用基于问题和模拟游戏（S/G）的方法开发的培训包的有效性。所使用的方法将包括与HAZMAT专家进行认知任务分析，对开发的培训包进行专家审查，以及与学习者一起测试培训包，以检查解决复杂问题的能力和决策能力。 该项目与公共卫生的相关性在于，提供基于研究的培训方法和技术，不仅可以提高当前危险品应对小组在与公共卫生相关的特定情况下的专业知识，而且还可以提供工具，通过创建可适应和可扩展的培训来创建或修改培训，以应对新的威胁。通过为危险品应对团队提供先进的培训技巧和技术，我们的目标是提高他们的专业知识、响应时间和应对日益复杂的情况的能力，例如恐怖主义威胁所造成的情况。通过提供培训，培养高效的危险物质应对团队，我们可以为公众健康提供更大的保障。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): HAZMAT response teams operate in increasingly cognitively complex, mentally stressing, physically fatiguing, and dangerous environments. Yet training needs need to include faster and direct access to new technologies, more operations-level training for first responders, and to provide hands-on and in simulated settings. This Phase I effort seeks to address this need. The proposed effort will focus on examining feasibility in three areas: 1) training methodology; 2) simulation-games approach to HAZMAT training; and 3) instructional design authoring support. This will support the application of advanced training techniques using advanced technologies to develop expertise through complex problem solving for HAZMAT response teams. This will not only impact the type of training being provided currently but will serve as an important model for other areas of HAZMAT training. To achieve these goals, a combined research design will include both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The overall goal of this research is to determine the effectiveness of the training package developed using the problem-based and simulation-game (S/G) approach. Methods used will include cognitive task analysis with HAZMAT experts, expert reviews of the training package developed, as well as testing the training package with learners to examine complex problem solving and decision making skills. The relevance of this project to public health is that providing research-based training methods and technologies that not only improves current HAZMAT response teams' expertise in specific situations related to public health, but also provides tools to address create or modify training to address new threats by creating training that is adaptable and extensible. By providing HAZMAT response teams with advanced training techniques and technologies, we aim to increase their expertise, response time, and ability to address increasingly complex situations, such as the ones posed by terrorist threats. By providing training that produces highly effective HAZMAT response teams, we can provide greater safeguards to public health.