Discusses a plan for helping mid-career professionals plan for management careers. Also describes a coordinated guide on preparing an Individual Development Plan. The guide is an eight-step strategy for individuals to use in collaboration with their supervisors to develop themselves for their present and future job responsibilities. (EM)

This is a special issue examining needs assessment as an important part of educational technology. Articles discuss: kits, models, and tools; politics; practitioner problems; government use; criterion referenced tests; public schools; U.S. Army training programs; secondary special education; higher education; instructional design; and a taxonomy…

An overview and philosophical discussion of the current use of instructional technology in naval training. This essay focuses on the process of instructional development and establishes a parallel between the concepts of instructional systems development and general management theory. (VT)

Discusses the instructional strategies used in a course on television as a popular art form, in which students use their regular television viewing to develop a critical awareness, learning tools and techniques for analyzing dramatic form and content. (RT)

The objective of this analysis on use of time in the classroom was to show whether or not students who spend more time in a particular content area also show higher achievement in that content area; the qualified conclusion is that more time yields more learning. (JD)

This research examined instructional conditions that underly the learning and retention of a group of three related concepts represented in a taxonomy of behavior management concepts. (Editor/RK)

A consultant in business education presents his system for developing strategies of individualized instruction in using commercial materials designed for group instruction. To illustrate the process he includes seven figures of pages from an accounting text, with marginal notes to direct the student to an individualized supplement. (MF)

According to the author, this article presents a hypothetical example for designing a supervisory training program by (1) performing organizational, operations, and person analyses; (2) formulating instructional objections; (3) performing a content analysis; and (4) constructing criterion-referenced tests. (MF)

Defines interactivation; outlines a theoretical framework based on Merrill's Component Display Theory for systematic analysis of instructional strategies contained in conventional films and videotapes; and explores how computer-based interactive video systems can be used to improve strategies contained in conventional films and tapes through…

Discusses the nature of technology, its relationship to science, and how it is affected by social values. The association of technology, design, and problem solving is described, goal setting and human psychology are discussed, and examples of technology in educational development projects are presented. (LRW)

Develops a theory of mediated learning from practice. Problems inherent in developing theories are reviewed; general assumptions are identified; and a descriptive theory is generated that identifies favorable factors facilitating learning. Factors are checked for consistency and used to generate hypotheses for collecting research data capable of…

This paper reviews instructional theory and research relating to three design criteria: (1) the order of presentation of instruction (sequencing); (2) the kinds of content relationships that should be taught; and (3) the way content relationships should be taught (synthesis). Also research on the relations between sequencing and synthesis is…

Describes study that investigated the communicability of the emotional connotation of various typefaces. Typographers, student instructional technologists, and naive readers (high school and college students) rated 30 typefaces using a semantic differential scale. Seven hypotheses tested are discussed and results are analyzed. (Author/LRW)

Outlines Component Design Theory, which is based on the author's earlier Component Display Theory, and provides the instructional design guidance needed for experiential computer based instructional systems. Highlights include a contrast between tutorial and experiential instructional models, content structures, consistency rules, instructional…

Describes changes in the instructional designer's role with the development of intelligent computer assisted instruction (ICAI). A shift in decision-making from the design to the implementation phase of instruction is emphasized, as the designer writes rules that allow systems to select methods once instruction has begun. Seventy-nine references…