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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

Management Decisions

Management decisions in Block II.1 will involve principally the inspection of the learning analyses and the learning objectives developed. The learning objectives should be properly stated, analyzed, and organized. The manager must look for those objectives which do not conform. There are many potential errors in the development of objectives including:

1. The student's mental process rather than observable behavior.

2. The standard is absent or deficient.

3. The statement of conditions is missing or poorly specified.

4. The objective is stated in instructor rather than learner terms.

5. The behavior stated is too broad. It does not adequately describe the specific outcomes.

In reviewing the learning objectives, the manager must identify the relationship between the terminal learning objective as stated and the job performance measure upon which it is based. Learning objectives should be examined to insure that each subordinate step is directly related to the terminal performance. Often, learning objectives are written in such a way as to preserve existing instruction rather than to conform to the requirements of the job performance measure. It is the manager's job to insure that these relationships are direct and clear.

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