5 Results and Discussion: Identical Elements
5 Results and Discussion: Identical Elements
Table 5 below presents a summary of the findings. Each coding related to the perfor-
mance indicators will be discussed in relation to the literature review and presented with
the use of a figure. The six participating institutions are referred to as BCases.^
The number of full mission bridges each case has in the simulator training facility was
collected to see if it correlated with the number of students each case could place in
every bridge, subsequently, if a case with many bridges would encompass a low
number of students in each bridge, to construct the simulator training as similar to
reality as possible (Baldwin and Ford 1988; Farmer et al. 1999; IMO 2012).
As we can see in Fig. 4, a variation was observed regarding how many students each
case encompassed in their simulator bridges. However, this was not in relation to the
number of bridges each institution had. Case 1 and 2 have the ability to utilize five
bridges each, with respectively three and two students in every bridge. This is similar to
cases 3 and 5, which only utilizes two and three bridges respectively with two to three
and three students in each bridge. Conclusively, they have approximately the same
number of students in each bridge, with a varied number of bridges to utilize.
Cases 4 and 6 have a clear difference in the number of bridges, 4 and 1, respectively.
Nevertheless, both cases have the highest number of students in each bridge, with
respectively eight and five students in every bridge. Consequently, a correlation
between the number of bridges and the number of students/bridge could not be found
among the different cases.
As we can see in Fig. 4, 66.66%, subsequently four cases, 1, 2, 3, and 5, facilitated two
to three students/bridge, in comparison to 33.33%, cases 4 and 6, which facilitated five
to eight students/bridge.
Identical Elements
9 8
8
7
6 5 5 5
5 4 4
4 3 2-3 3 3
3 2 2 2 2
2 1 1 1 1
1
0
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Case 6