Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

(3) \~olumc introductions, chapter introductions, and chapter
sunnaJries were recorded with a female voice to give more variety to the
tapes.
CK 5710u)B. This was the same, less verbal, more pictorial
CDC S?%iout the tape recordin@ and with all references to using
a tnpc player removed from the written text.
Procedures
Starting in August 1971, a graduation roster of each class in the
F:ire Protection Specialist Course \r’as furnished :hc Training Research
Applications Branch. The first entries into the CDC experimental program
g:l:3Jwtcd from the Chanutc course on 7 Septczber 1971. Khen an WS airman
graduated, his name and social security account number were furnished to
thz Estcnsion Course Institute, Edwational Systems Branch (ECI/EDS\‘),
at Gunt er AFB in Alabama. These names were then put on an identifier list
a’t EC1 as eligible for the CDC experimental program,
a. The number and flow of‘ MIS personnel available for this
experiment never became as great as the originally projected 16 per month.
One rc,rson for this was that Project 100,000 unofiicially decreased to
Project 50,000 some months before the experiment began. As a result, the
number of SYS students entering into the Fir-c Protection Specialist Ccurse
Jccrcnsctl by more than half. Thus, by the tine the CDC course materials
wrc\ prcP:ircJ, there was a shortage of eligible participants for the
cspcrimcnt.
b. Effective 1 April 1972, Change 4 to AI:N 33-3, Enlistment in the
Regular Air Force, cut off the MIS student flak- entirely. Under this change,
Xlr Force enlistecs must have an AFQT of at icast 21, and if the AFQT is
bctwecn 21 and 30 the enlistce must be at least a high school graduate.
This change in enlistment requirements stopped entry into the Air Force
(and thus eventually into this csperimentl of AX airmen. As a result,
the number of casts analyzed in the study is as follows: regular CDC --
24, experimental group 1 using the tape recorder -- 25, experimental group 2
u.sing only the i-written course materials -- 19.
:\s applications for the Fire Protection Spc