Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

Thus, we at Infantry School had a model and an implementation plan
for training adults to perform specific jobs.
Nean\vhile. Getz and others (3). who were changing froi,> a tradition-
ally based to competency based programmed instructional model for
teacher education at Illinois State University, provided the following
admonition in eal.ly 1973:
“\Vhile the rationJe for any program can be developed
logically, the actual implementation invariably creates
many problems that cannot be anticipated. . . The results
are rewarding. but adjustment by staff and students is
slower and more agonizing than most would suspect. ”
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The purpose of this paper is to compare human esperiences at the
Infantry School with those at other instituiions in changing instruc-
tione models; to focus on the impact of changing from norm-referenced
tests of know!-dgc to criterion-referenced tests of abilities; to discuss
some of the dynamics implied; and draw some Inferences.
Implementation of the systems engineering model at the Infantry School
has been a tremendous undertaking, both from the technical and the
human side.
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