Presents guidelines for giving feedback to improve the instructional effectiveness of other people's products and for getting feedback; and considers the subjective human element in both formal expert review, and more intimate colleague feedback. (VT)

Discusses the main categories of instructional software, including drill/practice, tutorials, simulation/problem solving, games, and management, along with factors involved in their design. (Author/MBR)

Discusses the need to develop an appropriate pedagogy for cooperative education to integrate the educational outcomes from the work and classroom experience. Suggests that the model should structure, guide, and provide for the systematic evaluation of the learning resulting from the cooperative education assignment. (JOW)

The usefulness of basic principles and methodology in the social sciences for stimulating research are discussed, but shown to be detrimental to teaching in the disciplines. To develop students' comprehension of knowledge it is argued that serious and professional reconsideration of governing principles is required. (Author/CM)

Two school districts in southwest Washington resolved practical concerns related to the mastery learning of writing skills. (Author/MLF)

Evaluates, in question/answer form, the available research literature on giving instructions/directions in terms of their effect on learning; presents a few guidelines on writing directions for practitioners; and points out some "missing links" in the area of research. (Author)

Addresses the problems of conducting predevelopment analyses in the military from a training developer's point of view, and discusses issues related to the basic questions of analysis and the rationale and method for performing it. (JEG)

Outlines Johnson's decision-making theory as a conceptual framework from which designers can work to facilitate effective relationships. The theory classifies clients into four styles: systematic internal, systematic external, spontaneous internal, and spontaneous external. (Author/JEG)

The systems approach to instruction is studied through an analysis of the use of this approach by the U.S. Air Force's Air Training Command. An explanation of the USAF Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model is given. (RAO)

Sketches a series of design decisions made at Utica College for a computer-supported writing facility, and their implications for the facility. Urges departments in similar situations to first of all establish instructional and operational goals to guide subsequent decisions, and suggests such goals. (SR)

Offers comments on earlier articles that discussed constructivism and instructional development. Social negotiation of meaning and objectivity is addressed, a multiple-perspective continuum for reconceptualizing objectivism and constructivism is explained, and the implications of constructivism for assessment are discussed. (38 references) (LRW)

Compares hypertext with instructional design and development principles and processes. Theoretical foundations for hypertext are discussed, including knowledge acquisition, schema theory, and active structural networks; mapping instructional designs onto hypertext is explained; and hypertext systems are described both as instructional design…

Examines how the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) selected, funded, developed, and implemented a distributed technical training system which achieves return on investment documented via performance measurement and follow-on evaluation. VBA proposed using the instructional systems development process, integrated with other advances in…

This chapter reports the results of a series of surveys that investigated the locations and attributes of FLCs, including type of institution and FLC sizes, budgets, participants, and activities. (Contains 12 tables.)

The faculty development of research assistants who are at the first step of their academic careers are significant for the employment of faculty members of future and realizing the responsibilities of higher education institutions as to contribute to science and technology. However, there is little research on the features of faculty development…