Abstract
This report is part of a project to create automated self-assessment tools for military leadership in the U.S. Army, using a novel automatic, language understanding, text-based distributed collaborative learning and problem solving environment that allows leaders to share their tacit and doctrinal knowledge. The online newsgroup-like environment has several automated features, such as the capability of finding semantically related notes entered by any other participant and providing quick and meaningful access to every paragraph in an electronic library of relevant information. Groups of officers from Lieutenants to Lieutenant Colonels were told to respond to online and written scenarios derived from Army tacit knowledge assessment tests. Results indicated that mean quality ratings from officers assessed in the online environment were consistently higher than those from responses in a paper and pencil based setting. These initial positive indications support the notion that this online setting can be useful in eliciting military experiential knowledge.
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