Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

Relatively few, including those of the United States Military Academy,
have been trained and educated to perform a specific job. Now,
suddenly, these graduates, who are now faculty members, are re-
quired to write and teach toward behavioral objectives and to devise
tests *requiring appropriate student behavior at a given criterion level
under. controlled conditions.
They were not taught like that.
Teaching was not like that.
Teaching is now like that.
And, as we are seeing, the change from one frame of reference to
the other spawns collisions.
We have managed the overall change through successive approxima-
tion. Quality controllers at first urged. helped, required instructors
to USC action verbs in their teaching or training objectives, and later
required more and more specificity of the conditions and standards
of performance to be elicited from the student.
Quality controllers are continuing to help instructors develop tests
of identified job tasks which are as closely related as possible to
job actions, conditions and standards. While some of the tests
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