A framework for building and testing models of recorded team decision making

Traditional correlational and regression analyses of aggregated decisions are ill-suited for mapping the underlying stochastic process of team decision making. It is particularly true if decision making is treated and represented as streams of continuous or discrete behaviour (Klein, 1989). Such a characterisation entails an ethnographical approach to record and analyse what happens during team decision making. It is generally accepted that direct observations are conceptually more appropriate and effective than other research methods in collecting information on the temporal patterning ofbehaviour (Bakeman & Gottman, 1986).