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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.5: SELECT INSTRUCTIONAL SETTINGS

Introduction

To insure that adequate training resources will be available when required upon the completion of the development of training, an early decision must be made assigning the tasks to the instructional setting or settings in which they will be trained. The optimal instructional setting for tasks is one that provides the most effective and efficient training to those members of the DOS who require the training. Setting decisions are very important in arranging training so that the trainee will be trained at the point in his career or assignment when he needs the knowledge or skills.

There are five instructional settings in the ISD procedures to which tasks can be assigned:

1. Job Performance Aids (JPAs) (even though a job performance aid is not technically instruction, it can serve to eliminate the need for instruction)

2. Self-Teaching Exportable Packages (STEPs)

3. Formal On-The-Job Training (FOJT)

4. Installation Support Schools (ISS)

5. Resident Schools (RS)

Guidelines have been established for the assignment of tasks to instructional settings and these guidelines are determined in part by the capability and resources of the various settings as well as the need for training at any point in time. The guidelines can be applied to the various clusters of similar tasks which can be nominated

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