“The learning effect of the coastal navigation course taught at HVL”

Abstract

This master’s thesis aims to determine whether there is a noticeable difference in coastal navigational skills between students at HVL who have completed the coastal navigation course, and students without the coastal navigation course. The study is based on participating observation of three candidates from each category during a planning exercise, a simulator exercise, and a personal interview. The low number of participants in each groups makes it hard to determine whether there are any noticeable differences based on the collected data, whether it is the number of participants, the measures or the exercises which renders the study inconclusive is also hard to determine, but there are some interesting hints and indications that point towards differences between the groups. There are also some indications that point towards some similarities between the groups as a whole related to their attitudes towards simulator exercises, but this angle has not been explored in this study.