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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

GLOSSARY (continued...)

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PEER TUTORING: A form of instruction in which students at the same or more advanced level of knowledge provide instruction to students at the same or lower level of knowledge on the specific objectives under consideration. Peer tutors are not members of the existing instructional establishment.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: The gathering of data to specifically determine the success of students on a specific task, as a result of a training program.

PERFORMANCE MEASURES: The absolute standard by which a job performance is judged. A performance measure is the inventory of job tasks with each performance objective.

PERSE ERATE: Continue an activity until it is completed, regardless of the difficulty, or the appropriateness of the solution technique to the problem.

PERT (PROGRAM EVALUATION REVIEW TECHNIQUE): PERT is a method of monitoring the flow of a large project by breaking it down into small individual activities and assigning each activity a specified amount of time for completion.

PHYSICAL SKILLS: Specified muscular activities for accomplishing a goal.

POST FEEDBACK DELAY: The pause which follows the presentation of feedback. This allows time for the correct response to "sink in."

POSTTEST: A test administered after the completion of instruction to assess whether a student has mastered the objectives of the course or unit.

PREDICTIVE VALIDITY: The ability of a test score to accurately forecast future performance.

PREDIFFERENTIATION OF STIMULI: Pointing out the distinguishing features of an object and explaining the differences between them.

PRETEST: Administered prior to instruction to determine how much the student already knows.

PROCESS EVALUATION: An early stage in ISD development that identifies which steps in the model will be used for the course under development. The purpose of the process evaluation is to describe and document the actual developmental process for this particular instruction.

PROCESS STANDARDS: Refers to the conditions which must be satisfied for a job to be successfully completed. Process standards refer to sequence, accuracy, speed of performance, and completeness.

PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION: Instructional materials which present subject matter in a series of small sequential units which require responses from the student.

PROMPT: A word or other signal that initiates or guides behavior; a cue.

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