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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

LOCAL INITIATIVES

There are two predictions about the local school reactions to the IPISD program which can be made with some degree of safety. First, that the IPISD procedures are either a little or a lot different than what is being done at the school now, and second, that there will be a number of specific reservations associated with the implementation of IPISD at the school.

Past experience has indicated that schools are often required to follow the letter rather than the intent of the procedures, particularly when these have been promulgated by regulation. It is the intent of the ISD implementation plan that the spirit of the procedure is far more important than the letter. This is a troublesome notion because the difference between letter and spirit often can be detected only by those who are thoroughly familiar with the procedures. There are approaches which appear on the surface to be approximately equal and which have been shown to be quite different.

A second reservation is that of becoming involved in excessive paperwork, forms, and reporting requirements to the detriment of the course development effort. It has been a specific objective in the design of the procedures in these manuals to avoid specifying non-essential forms and reporting requirements. Experience with the program in the services is more likely to result in a realistic determination of essential reporting requirements.

A third reservation is that suspense dates for implementation of new programs are often too close for reasonable compliance. It is expected that IPISD will take considerable time and effort for proper

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