PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION IN RETAIL SALES.
Abstract
The report describes the first full-course evaluation of programmed instruction in the Navy. Programmed individual instruction was substituted for part of the lecture and discussion, and for all of the homework assignments in an 11-week course in Retail Sales and Ship's Store Management at the U. S. Navy Supply Corps School. Seventy-eight officer students followed the new procedure, 52 followed the usual procedure. The program group saved 56 per cent of the usual homework time, or 17 per cent of the usual over-all study time, and the instructors of the program group saved 54 per cent of the usual lecture hours. Achievement and retention in the program group were equal to that in the control group. The program group showed more homogeneous performance with auditing and problem-solving procedures. A survey of student attitudes disclosed that a majority of the program students felt the program was most effective in teaching auditing and other problemsolving procedures and were agreeable to receiving programmed instruction in the future. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0610093
Entities
People
- Albert E. Hickey
- William J. Laidlaw