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Acronyms and Glossary

Acronyms

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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...)

U / V

UNDERTRAIN: Provide inadequate training that does not prepare a student to meet regular job performance requirements.

VALIDATION: A process through which a course is revised until it is effective in realizing its instructional goal.

VALIDATION DOCUMENTATION: A report which describes in detail how a specific course of instruction was validated and for what target population.

VALIDATION PROCESS: Testing instructional materials on a sample of the target population to insure that the materials are effective.

VALIDITY: The degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.

VALUE ENGINEERING: Refers to the process of designing equipment or instruction to meet but not exceed the required outcomes. Ordinarily, it refers to the elimination of features or instructional objectives that have not been demonstrated to be positively necessary.

VIGILANCE LEVEL: General degree of watchfulness or attentiveness to what may come.

VISUAL FORM: In media selection, refers to whether alphanumeric or pictorial characteristics are required in a learning situation.

VISUAL SPECTRUM: The type of color required of instructional materials. Some must be with full color, others may be with black and white or shades of grey.

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