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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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SIMULATION: Any change from reality or any imitation of reality. Three types are common:
- simulating part of the system,
- simulating the operation of the system,
- and simulating the environment in which the system will operate.

SIMULATORS: Machines or processes designed to provide training which will have high positive transfer to the real world equipment or situation. Simulators are ordinarily cheaper, safer, or more available than the actual situation or equipment.

SLIDE-TAPE: A combination of visual slides and an audio tape synchronized so that the audio describes the content of the slides.

SOFT DATA: Obtained from attitude or opinion surveys. not as reliable as hard data. This data is

STANDARDS: Occurs in terminal learning objectives or learning objectives; describes the criterion or standard of performance which must be attained.

STIMULUS CRITERIA: Those basic qualities or capabilities of a medium that are required to carry out the intent of the learning activity; for example, visual images, motion, color, and sound.

STORYBOARD: A collection or series of small pictures which describe the action and content that will be contained in an audiovisual or visual-only production. A sequence of these small pictures comprise a storyboard.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT: A person who has professional skill in the performance of some job and who is consulted by an instructional designer in the process of job task analysis.

SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIP: Occurs when skills and knowledges in one objective have some relationship to those in the other objective; the learning involved in mastery of one learning objective transfers to the other, making learning involved in the mastery of the other easier.

SYMBOL: Anything that stands for or represents something else. A plus sign (+) is a symbol for the mathematical operation of addition.

SYSTEM MASTER PLAN: Control document used to coordinate the development and implementation of an instructional program.

SYNCHRONIZING PULSE: An audible or inaudible sound used to coordinate the audio and video portions of a slide-tape program so that audio and video (i.e., slide and narration) are coordinated.

SYSTEMS APPROACH: A generic term referring to the orderly process of analysis, design, development, evaluation, revision, and operation of a collection of interrelated elements.

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