INTEGRATING ERRORS INTO THE TRAINING PROCESS: THE FUNCTION OF ERROR MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTIONS AND THE ROLE OF GOAL ORIENTATION

Error management training explicitly allows participants to make errors. We examined the effects of error management instructions (“rules of thumb” designed to reduce the negative emotional effects of errors), goal orientation (learning goal, prove goal, and avoidance goal orientations) and attribut...

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Published in:Personnel psychology 2003-06, Vol.56 (2), p.333-361
Main Authors: HEIMBECK, DOERTE, FRESE, MICHAEL, SONNENTAG, SABINE, KEITH, NINA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Computer Software
Discovery Learning
Errors
Feedback
Goal Orientation
Learning
Learning Processes
Management Development
Positive reinforcement
Software
Studies
Teaching Methods
Training
Training Methods
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Summary:Error management training explicitly allows participants to make errors. We examined the effects of error management instructions (“rules of thumb” designed to reduce the negative emotional effects of errors), goal orientation (learning goal, prove goal, and avoidance goal orientations) and attribute x treatment interactions on performance. A randomized experiment with 87 participants consisting of 3 training procedures for learning to work with a computer program was conducted: (a) error training with error management instructions, (b) error training without error management instructions; and (c) a group that was prevented from making errors. Results showed that short‐and medium‐term performance (near and far transfer) was superior for participants of the error training that included error management instructions, compared with the two other training conditions. Thus, error management instructions were crucial for the high performance effects of error training. Prove and avoidance goal orientation interacted with training conditions.
ISSN:0031-5826
1744-6570
DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2003.tb00153.x