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Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development :
Executive Summary and Model (Continued...)
by Robert K. Branson, Gail T. Rayner and J. Lamarr Cox

media, it will be necessary to develop appropriate cost information as these costs can be established and verified.

The Navy's Training Analysis Evaluation Group has been working for a number of years on appropriate media selection and training setting costs. The basic document summarizing these procedures entitled, A Technique for Choosing Cost Effective Delivery Systems (TECEP) is available for use. This document can be used by local managers either in its current form or as adapted to local requirements as a basis for generating appropriate training cost information. This data will be needed in several of the steps in the Model, particularly in Blocks I.5, Block III.1, and Block III.2. In those blocks, specific reference is made to the need for obtaining and comparing alternative costs for different training approaches. The recommended procedure is that the technician who is preparing the recommended approach should do so based on training criteria, and when these are complete, they should be negotiated with appropriate managers in order to be sure that the best cost tradeoffs can be made.

As experience in IPISD accumulates, more and better cost information will allow more cost effective decisions to be made.

Historically, training costs have typically been calculated on a "training/man-year basis." While this was an appropriate procedure for the more traditional forms of training, man/year costs do not take into account the increased productivity which often results from successful application of ISd. Future cost models for ISD-type courses must take into account the unit output cost in contrast to the man/year costs.

Regardless of the cost model selected by your local command, costs

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