A Systems Analysis of a Self-Paced, Variable-Length Course of Instruction.

Abstract

The Basic Army Administrative Course (BAAC) trains enlisted personnel for the 71B10/20 MOS (Clerk-Typist). The BAAC Course is one of the largest self-paced, variable-length programs conducted by the Army. The students are taught primarily by the use of programmed instructional texts (PI), and, within limits, can progress through the course at their own rate. The 71B10/20 course is scheduled to revert to a fixed-length course lasting seven weeks. Before this change becomes effective, it was deemed desirable to examine the course to identify its good and poor pedagogical and administrative features. The objectives were to obtain information about an operationally effective, self-paced, variable-length course; to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the 71B10/20 course as they existed during the Summer and Fall of 1973; and to develop suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of the course. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA077983

Entities

People

  • C. Dennis Fink
  • Harold Wagner
  • Morris Showel
  • Richard D. Behringer

Organizations

  • Human Resources Research Organization

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Courses (Education)
  • Court Martial
  • Doctrine
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Human Resources
  • Instructional Materials
  • Instructions
  • Instructors
  • Motivation
  • Personnel Management
  • Programmed Instruction
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Systems Analysis
  • Training
  • Video Tapes

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  • Education

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