Evaluating Instructor Configurability for Adaptive Training

Adaptive training technologies offer the promise of more individualized and effective training. However, these technologies increase the complexity of training systems. They also potentially can limit the ability of instructors and curriculum developers without technical skills to customize and to adapt training to specific instructional demands. This paper describes a methodology for verifying that an adaptive training system is configurable and responsive to specifications encoded by instructors. That is, when an instructor desires for the training system to respond in particular ways in particular circumstances, how readily can the adaptive training technology be used to execute that specification? The paper describes a verification methodology and its application to a dynamic adaptation capability in a desktop-based simulation-training prototype.