Trends in the Programmed Instruction

Papers from the First Annual Convention of the National Society for Programmed Instruction

Gabriel D. Ofiesh, Wesley C. Meierhenry

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781593111434
• eBook ISBN:
  9781918116830
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

This publication is a very significant cooperative effort of the Department of Audiovisual Instruction and the National Society for Programmed Instruction. It is, we believe, a harbinger of future joint activities between our two organizations whose purposes converge in the field of programmed learning.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Front Matter
• Foreword
• Editorial
• Preface
• Contents
• A Fable
• I. Introduction
• II. Education
• The Emergence of Instructional Technology
• Programmed Instruction and the Philosophy of Education
• Programmed Instruction and the Control of Behavior
• Programming the Impossible
• A Dialogue Between Teaching and Testing
• Programmed Instruction Compared with Automated Instruction
• Programmed Instruction in Perspective
• III. Development of Systems Applications
• The Systems Approach to Programming
• Programmed Instruction as a Systems Approach to Education
• Programmed Instruction and the Technology of Training
• Setting Programmed Instruction Objectives Using Systems Methodology
• The Implementation of a Systems Approach to Programmed Instruction for a State Department of Education
• Behavioral Planning Networks
• IV. The Teacher
• Educational Technology and the Role of the Teacher
• The Impact of Programmed Instruction on Conventional Instruction
• A Venture in Programmed Instruction
• Programming a Course in World History
• Programs in the Language Arts—Available and Desirable
• Some Pitfalls in the Classroom Use of Programs
• What Services Teachers and Educators Want and Need from Programmed Learning Experts
• A Programmed Text in Prosody
• TOP-Trying Out Programs
• V. The Exceptional Student
• Programmed Instruction and the Exceptional Child
• The Draper Experiment: A Programmed Learning Project
• Programmed Audio-Visual Training for the Mentally Retarded
• Linguistics, Language, and Dyslexia
• VI. Industrial Applications
• Aerospace Industrial Programming (Past, Present and Future)
• Industrial Programmed Instruction in Value Control Training
• Technological Change and the Journeyman Electrician: An Experimental Study in Continuing Education
• Training Programmers for USAA
• Application of Audio-Lingual Programming to Industrial Training
• A Technique for Determining the Administrative Feasibility of Programmed Learning in Government and Industrial Training Programs
• Determining Training Needs
• Considerations When Organizing Programming Projects
• VII. Military and Governmental Applications
• Programmed Instruction: Breakthrough in Air Force Training??
• Mechanical Training with the K-38 Revolver
• An Experiment in Programming the Care and Use of Aircraft Mechanics' Hand Tools
• The Air Force Letter
• Programmed Instruction at Chanute AFB, Illinois
• Programmed Instruction and the Instructional System at the U.S. Air Force Academy
• Programmed Instruction and On-the-job Training
• Research on Automated Training at Electronics Systems Division
• VIII. The Health Sciences
• Programmed Instruction in Medical Education
• Programmed Instruction Applied to Selected Aspects of Dental Education
• Programmed Instruction in Nursing Education
• IX. Instructional Programming
• Increasing the Productivity of Programmers
• Useful Objectives
• Task Analysis-Bane or Blessing?
• Job Analysis and Its Application to Training
• Development of Measurement Devices for Programmed Instruction
• Quality Control Problems and the Selection of Well-Constructed Programs
• Adjunct Programming
• A Consideration of Some Objective Properties of Linear Programs
• Some General Rules of Frame Construction
• Construction of an Academic Program for School Consultants in Programmed Learning
• Problems in the Relationship Between Subject Matter and Programmed Learning Specialists with Implications for Training and Research
• IBEX-A Method of Instruction
• Novelty Effects of Programmed Instruction
• Technology and Teacher Productivity
• A Potpourri of Programming Technology
• X. Evaluations
• Judging the Teaching Effectiveness of Programs
• Validation Data for Programmed Texts: A Checklist for Evaluation of Testing
• Reappraisal of Achievement Measures
• XI. Future Trends
• Programming Thinking
• Research in Programmed Instruction: An Overview
• Research Accomplishments and Needs in Programmed Instruction
• The Effect of Withholding Reinforcement in Auto Instructional Programs
• Proactive and Retroactive Effects in Programmed Learning
• Explorations in Student-Controlled Instruction
• Partial and Continuous Feedback in a Linear Programmed Instruction Package
• An Evaluation of Programmed Instruction and Conventional Classroom Techniques
• The Uninvited
• Programmed Instruction Over Closed Circuit Television
• The Requirement for Overt Responses as a Function of Response Relevance and Information Level
• Film as a Program Medium: Technical and Economic Considerations
• Individual Differences in Mental Alertness and Implications for the Scheduling of Programmed Instruction
• What Should Be Programmed for Television?
• Problems and Issues in the Publishing of Programmed Materials
• Problems in Publishing Programmed Materials
• XII. A Point of Transition
• Appendix A — Bibliography
• Appendix B — Contributors