Accession Number:

AD0656894

Title:

COMPARISON OF CONVENTIONAL AND PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING COMMUNICATIONS PROCEDURES,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL PERSONNEL RESEARCH ACTIVITY SAN DIEGO CALIF NAVY TRAINING RESEARCH LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Johnson,Kirk A.
• Baldwin,Robert O.

Report Date:

1967-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

Comparisons were made between programmed and conventional instruction within the schools of the Naval Air Technical Training Command. In this study a comparison was made between two versions of the Airborne Radio Code Operator ARCO Course. In the Conventional version, Military Communication Procedures was taught by means of lecture-discussion sessions in the Program version, this same material was taught by means of programmed booklets. The students in the Program version required a total of 14.5 hours to cover this material, as opposed to a total of 30 hours required for the lecture-discussion sessions of the Conventional version. This afforded a savings of better than 50 over this particular portion of the course, and a savings of two days in the total length of the course. Mastery of the material was measured by means of two special tests. On the multiple choice test, the Conventional group was found to be slightly better than the Program group on the short answer test, the Program group was found to be slightly better than the Conventional group. The difference favoring the Program group was somewhat larger than the difference favoring the Conventional group. Author

Descriptors:

• *TEACHING METHODS
• PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION
• COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
• NAVAL TRAINING
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• NAVAL PERSONNEL

Subject Categories:

• Humanities and History

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE