As technology provides the means for handling the simpler tasks of most military jobs, the role of the equipment operator as a decision-maker, required to exercise complex judgment, becomes more critical to the military mission. The requirement grows, therefore, for the instructional design community to accommodate the special demands for judgment training in new and existing programs; indeed, the requirment has already existed for some time now.

Several studies of judgment and judgment training have been presented here. Each of these efforts has proposed a training implementation plan, some more extensive than others. This paper has attempted to evaluate the most practical features of each judgment analysis and convert them to training suggestions which could be easily and inexpensively incorporated into ongoing programs, including:

1. Reducing the domain of tasks which actually represent judgment performance,

2. Training this judgment performance using control of learning situations and academic presentation, and;

3. Considering (and, therefore, reducing) the effects of stress.

These suggestions are intended as a minimal cost, minimal intervention approach to fulfill the need for training judgment. Eventual expansion of these ideas could, hopefully, result in a comprehensive program along the lines of the Jensen proposal.

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Steven Murray