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Acronyms and Glossary

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Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development :
Acronyms and Glossary (continued)
by Robert K. Branson, Gail T. Rayner and J. Lamarr Cox

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CHECKLIST: Job performance aid which lists the elements of a task in the sequence of execution. The job holder places a check beside each element as it is accomplished, thus insuring that the task is completed.

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER: Arranging content in order from one topic to another based on when they occurred in time.

COMMON-FACTOR LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Refers to learning objectives that are identical, or that have identical action words and similar objects of the action in the learning objective statement.

COMPARATIVE SEQUENCE: Sequencing which starts with familiar topics and goes to unfamiliar ones.

COMPLEXITY CRITERION: In media selection, the degree of complexity required of instructional materials in order to adequately train students to meet learning objectives.

COMPUTER MODELS TECHNIQUE: Occurs during the simulation of an operational system; involves having a computer simulate the major operations of the system, under a variety of conditions.

CONDITIONS: Occurs in terminal learning objectives; describes what is presented to the student in order to accomplish the specified action, that is, it describes the important aspects of the performance environment.

CONTIGUITY: Refers, in learning, to the principle that events which occur closely together become associated by the learner.

CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT: The establishment of a set of procedures by which trainees are required to perform a certain amount of work or to achieve certain objectives before engaging in activities that are preferred by the trainee (e.g., recreation, a break, or a more desirable training event).

COURSE DOCUMENTATION: Information describing the current content of a course (instructional materials, tests, instructor's manual, evaluation plan, student's manual) and its developmental history (job analysis, criteria for selecting tasks for training, previous revisions).

CLUSTERING: A process of organizing many tasks into groups for the purpose of deciding upon the optimal instructional setting mix for that group of tasks.

CRITERION-REFERENCED TEST: Measures what an individual can do or knows, compared to what he must be able to do or must know in order to successfully perform a task. Here an individual's performance is compared to external criteria or performance standards which are derived from an analysis of what is required to do a particular task.

CRITICAL CUE: Cue which must be correctly interpreted by the student before we can correctly perform the associated task.

CRITICAL SEQUENCE: Sequencing of topics or objectives according to their importance.

CUE: A word or other signal that initiates or guides behavior; a prompt.

CUT-OFF SCORE: Minimum passing score.

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