A study was conducted to establish the current status of Individualized Instruction (II) in the Navy and other services, identify the factors influencing its effectiveness, identify present or potential problem areas, and recommend strategies/policies to improve II in Navy technical training. Particular attention was given to an assessment of…

A course on military tactics was programed to provide four types of student response conditions: reading the item and writing the answer (overt, constructed), reading the item and thinking the answer (covert, constructed), reading the item with the answer included and then writing the answer (overt, prompted), and reading the item with the answer…

Programed instruction is defined here as the use of a set of engineering techniques for applying learning principles in an instructional situation. Military commanders and their staff who may be interested in programed instruction for their training programs are offered a general view of what is involved in automating instruction. The…