DTIC ADA495175: Ability-Based Pairing Strategies in the Team-Based Training of a Complex Skill: Does the Intelligence of Your Training Partner Matter?

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1. REPORT DATE 2. REPORT TYPE 3. DATES COVERED
JAN 2005 Journal Article 00-01-2003 to 00-12-2004
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
Ability-based pairing strategies in the team-based training of a F41624-95-C-5007
complex skill: Does the intelligence of your training partner
5b. GRANT NUMBER
matter?
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
62202F
6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER
Eric Day; Winfred Arthur Jr; Suzanne Bell; Bryan Edwards; 1123
Winston Bennett Jr et al
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5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER
Air Force Research Laboratory/HEA,Warfighter Training AFRL; AFRL/HEA
Research Division,6030 South Kent Street,Mesa,AZ,85212-6061
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM(S)
Air Force Research Laboratory/RHA, Warfighter Readiness AFRL; AFRL/RHA
Research Division, 6030 South Kent Street, Mesa, AZ,
11. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S REPORT NUMBER(S)
85212-6061
AFRL-RH-AZ-JA-2005-0001
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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Published in Intelligence 33(1), 2005, pp 39-65 Additional authors: Mendoza, J.L., & Tubre, T.C.
14. ABSTRACT
Intelligence researchers traditionally focus their attention on the individual level and overlook the role of intelligence at the
interindividual level. This research investigated the interplay of the effects of intelligence at the individual and interindividual
levels by manipulating the intelligence-based composition of dyadic training teams. Using a sample of 176 young adult males and
a complex computer-based criterion task, homogeneous and heterogeneous dyadic training teams were created based on
intelligence scores, and both team and individual performance were assessed throughout 10 h of training. Results indicated a
strong additive influence of intelligence on team performance and a slightly positive nonadditive effect in uniformly high
(HH)-ability teams. Trainees’ individual skill acquisition was strongly correlated with the performance of their teams. However,
nonadditive partner effects were observed such that high-ability trainees acquired significantly more skill when paired with
high-ability partners instead of low-ability partners, but low-ability trainees benefited very little from being paired with
high-ability partners.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Ability-based pairing; Strategies; Team-based training; Team training; Complex skills; Intelligence; Training; Attention;
Intelligence-based composition; Training teams; Computer-based criterion; Skill acquisition; Interindividual; Dyadic training
teams
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