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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

BLOCK I.2: SELECT TASKS/FUNCTIONS

Introduction

The second step in the ISD procedure is the selection of tasks for which training will be given. Information collected during the job analysis and occupational survey procedures in the prior block is used to decide which tasks are of sufficient importance to train.

Selecting Tasks/Functions represents a critical step in the ISD process because it is at this point that those tasks selected will obligate resources throughout the entire ISD procedure. Any task rejected is, for the training establishment, no longer a factor.

Rationale

Fundamental to the notion of selecting tasks for training is the assumption that there rarely will be enough time or resources to train everything that might be desirable to train. While it may be possible under some highly threatening national circumstances to obtain financial resources, it is likely that even then the available time and personnel resources cannot be directed to the training effort. In any event it is assumed that because of these resource constraints, decisions will have to be made in terms of the priorities assigned to the various tasks.

Even if there were unlimited time and resources, some tasks would have to be trained before others because of the serial nature of work. One way of conceptualizing this part of the process is to list the tasks in the order that they will be trained.

The past few years have seen improvements in the techniques and procedures available for task selection. Exceptionally good data is now

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