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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

BLOCK I.4: ANALYZE EXISTING COURSES

Introduction

A basic objective of the Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development is to facilitate and encourage interservice training in all those situations which meet the established criteria. By careful analysis of the courses existing within and among the services according to a recommended set of procedures, it is expected that the benefits of interservice training are more likely to be realized. These procedures provide guidelines for making the analysis and suggest criteria which can be applied in order to estimate the potential usefulness of existing training.

Rationale

These procedures are included at this point in the model to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort wherever possible. To make this analysis in the absence of reliable job analysis data could well be misleading. Many courses of the same name do not have the same content, nor do they emphasize the same tasks or conditions. The primary purpose, then, of this block is to determine the degree to which an existing course teaches the same tasks that the command needs to teach.

A second important reason for these procedures is to enable any service to take advantage of prior work done within that service or within the other services. The position taken here is that duplication of instruction is not, in and of itself, evidence of bad planning. In many cases, the location and existence of a course which is operating at capacity may well preclude sending additional people

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