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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

actually bringing the instruction on-line and operating it. The Phase IV effort continues as long as there is a need for the instruction.

Phase V, CONTROL, deals with procedures and techniques for maintaining instructional quality control standards and for providing data from internal and external sources upon which revision decisions can be based. Data collection, evaluation of the data, and decision making about the implications of the data represent the three principal functions described in Phase V. Emphasis is placed on the importance of determining whether the trainees are learning what was intended, and upon determining whether what they have learned is of the expected benefit to the receiving command. A negative answer to either of these would suggest revisions in the content or procedures in order to make the instruction meet the need it is intended to serve.

How Does ISD Differ From Existing Practice

One way to indicate the difference between ISD and existing practices is to point out that there are currently a number of existing practices, some of which represent excellent applications of ISD. There are outstanding examples of well-conceived and delivered instruction available within the Interservice training community. However, these efforts do not represent a very large fraction of the total interservice training establishment. One purpose of this manual is to establish interservice standards for the design, development and delivery of instruction which will meet state-of-the-art specifications.

An important difference between ISD and more traditional forms of instruction is that the ISD process, through occupational surveys and job analyses requires the thoughtful selection of what is to be trained based on solid job data from the field. This practice tends to insure

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