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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

difficult to tolerate, but the manager must choose among the alternatives, decide which risks he is willing to assume and which he is not, and allocate his resources accordingly.

The last set of management decisions involves the validation process. Test validation, like marksmanship, can always get better. That is, a test can be revised and improved until its validity reaches the technical limit. The manager must decide the level of validity that he will be willing to accept and the amount of his resources that he is willing to invest in achieving that level of validity. In those DOSs with minimum risks, one can be satisfied with lesser validity than in those where inadequate performance can have disastrous results.

While this list does not exhaust the management decisions required in the development of JPMs, it does highlight the significant decisions that he will be forced to make and indicate the areas in which he may require inputs from professional individuals.

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