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Complex cognitive skill retention: The roles of general mental ability and refresher interventions in a simulated vocational setting.

Abstract: In organizations, the assessment of mental abilities is a common way to predict learning success. This paper analyses the effect of general mental ability on skill retention and examines the relationship between refresher interventions and general mental ability in terms of skill retention...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 471 - 482
Main Authors: Frank, Barbara, Kluge, Annette
Format: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2018
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          Frank, Barbara
          Kluge, Annette
        affil: Business Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr‐University Bochum, Germany
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          Vocational Education Germany
          Cognition
          Skill Retention
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          Simulations
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Psychological Tests
          Experimental Studies
          Female
          Male
          Adult
          Repeated Measures
          Analysis of Variance
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Female
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      ab: Abstract: In organizations, the assessment of mental abilities is a common way to predict learning success. This paper analyses the effect of general mental ability on skill retention and examines the relationship between refresher interventions and general mental ability in terms of skill retention. Two hundred sixty‐six adult participants were trained to perform a complex cognitive skill in a simulated chemical processing plant (Week 1). After 1 week, 158 participants received intermediate computer‐assisted refresher intervention training in which the skill was applied (Week 2; 108 received no intervention). Finally, participants had to recall (perform) the learned skill after 2 weeks (Week 3). Results show that general mental ability alone affects skill retention with small effect sizes and that refresher interventions affect skill retention positively for low and high general mental ability levels. The findings suggest that persons with low and high general mental abilities benefit equally from refresher interventions in order to maintain complex cognitive skills.
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