An evaluation of the effects of simulator training on ice management performance

This research offers practical insights into the relationship between amount of training and ice management performance. In a previous experiment, it was found that, on average, experienced seafarers performed better in an ice management simulator than inexperienced cadets (Veitch, 2018). In a current experiment, two additional groups of inexperienced cadets were trained for ice management in either one or two sessions. The training included viewing examples of expert performance and completing practice scenarios in a simulator. After training, the cadets completed two ice management simulator scenarios, one of which was the same as that used in the previous experiment. Training was found to have a positive effect on ice management performance in most scenarios. In the scenario used in both experiments, ice management performance improved with increasing amounts of training and the results demonstrate a proposed method for estimating the amount of training required to reach a performance target