title: A feedback intervention to increase digital and paper checklist performance in technically advanced aircraft simulation.
abstract: This study examined whether pilots operating a flight simulator completed digital or paper flight checklists more accurately after receiving postflight graphic and verbal feedback. The dependent variable was the number of checklist items completed correctly per flight. Following treatment, checklist completion with paper and digital checklists increased from 38% and 39%, respectively, to nearly 100% and remained close to 100% after feedback and praise for improvement were withdrawn. Performance was maintained at or near 100% during follow-up probes.
authors.affiliation: College of Aviation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008, USA. william.rantz@wmich.edu
authors.forename: William G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Rantz
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Houten
mesh_terms: D001359:Aviation / Q000193:education*; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D057189:Checklist / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D014584:User-Computer Interface