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Tucker, Alan E. M.; And Others – Engineering Education, 1984
To prepare military and civilian engineers for middle and upper-level engineering management positions, the Air Force Institute of Technology offers a masters-level graduate engineering management program for the United States Air Force and other organizations. A study of this program's effectiveness, as perceived by graduates and their…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Engineering Education, Engineers, Higher Education
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Cloutier, Marc G.; Cowan, Michael L. – Journal of Medical Education, 1986
The use of a six-day multiple-simulation exercise in the military disaster medical services training program of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is described. It is the second part of a clerkship that includes a classroom/laboratory phase using a disaster problem-solving board game. (MSE)
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Services
Montague, William E.; Wulfeck, Wallace H., II – 1982
This report reviews the background of the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model (used to develop training for Naval personnel), identifies problems in the ISD process and in its management and implementation, and recommends methods of ISD improvement. The ISD model is described as a process originally developed to remind instructional…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Guidelines, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
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Bennik, Fred D.; And Others – 1980
As part of its ongoing effort to develop Army embedded training (ET) systems in which a tactical computer system is used to train personnel about its own utilization, a project was conducted to develop and evaluate courseware on how to program lessons for computer assisted instruction (CAI). Since PLANIT (Programing Language for Interactive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Research, Instructional Materials
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1983
The Army's Basic Skills Education Program (BSEP) was studied to consider whether it was properly designed to determine the basic skills needed in Army jobs and to be effectively implemented. Information and reports on BSEP were reviewed, and three major commands were selected for evaluation. In designing the program, the Army did not identify the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Brown, William R.; And Others – 1980
An evaluation was conducted of minority (Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian) and female performance in the Army's Initial Entry Rotary Wing flight training program. Each minority group was compared to a matched sample of majority students. The groups were matched on several test scores, education level, age, rank, and source of entry. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Buddin, Richard; Kapur, Kanika – 2002
Tuition Assistance (TA) is a military-sponsored program that reimburses military members for 75% of the tuition costs of college classes while on active duty in the hope of making military service more attractive to young people and encouraging them to remain in the military. TA's effectiveness was examined by using two models--a bivariate probit…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Influences, Estimation (Mathematics)