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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

GLOSSARY (continued...)

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EMPIRICALLY BASED REVISION: Revision based on the results of test data and the collection of other types of quantitative information.

ENTRY BEHAVIOR: The skill, knowledge, and/or attitude required before beginning a new segment of instruction; also may refer to the capability a person has prior to new learning.

ENTRY SKILLS: Specific, measurable behaviors that have been determined through the process of analysis of learning requirements to be basic to subsequent knowledge or skill in the course.

ENTRY SKILLS TEST: A measurement instrument designed to determine if a student already possesses certain skills or knowledge needed as a prerequisite before undertaking new instruction.

ENTRY TEST: Contains items based on the objectives that the intended students must have mastered in order to begin the course.

ERROR OF HALO: Occurs when an observer sometimes allows his rating of performance to be influenced by his general impression of a person.

ERRORS OF LOGIC: Occur when two or more traits are being rated. It is present if an observer tends to give similar ratings to traits which do not necessarily go together. The traits are related only in the mind of the person making the error.

ERRORS OF STANDARD: Occur when observers tend to rate performers too high or too low because of differences in their standards.

EVALUATION: The process of interpreting the results of measurement data (e.g., tests, JPMs) for the purpose of making a judgment or decision on the instruction or on the success of a trainee.

EVALUATION CRITERIA: The measures used to determine the adequacy of performance.

EVALUATION PLAN: A method or outline of what set of procedures will be used to gather data and information for the purpose of assessing a course of instruction.

EXTERNAL CUES: Signals for action that exist outside of the student (conditions, features, or characteristics of the job environment that trigger action).

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