Part-Task Training for Tracking and Manual Control

TLDR

Part-task training involves practicing selected components of a task before attempting the full task. The goal is to enhance learning efficiency and lower costs. The review examined how to teach tracking skills for manual control using part-task methods such as segmentation, fractionation, and simplification, and how to reintegrate these parts into the complete task. The study highlighted transfer of training and identified key methodological features and assessment approaches.

Abstract

Part-task training was defined as practice on some set of components of the whole task as a prelude to performance of the whole task. Part-task procedures are intended to improve learning efficiency and to reduce costs. Our review focused on the instruction of tracking skills for manual control. Transfer of training was emphasized and crucial features of the methodology and of means of assessing transfer were discussed. The part-task procedures of segmentation, fractionation, and simplification were explained, and procedures for reintegrating parts into the whole task were summarized.