Fundamental Skills Training in the Saudi Naval Expansion Program: Evaluation Report 1
Abstract
The development and evaluation of a fundamental skills training (FST) program for enlisted personnel in the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) are described. The FST program was 6 months in length and preceded technical training. The goal of FST was to increase the comparability of RSNF and U.S. Navy students in the follow-on 'A' school training, where the two groups are integrated. The FST is a multistranded, objective-based, mastery program that teaches the reading, writing, mathematics, science, and study skills prerequisite to 'A' school training in the electronics, engineering, seamanship, and clerical strands. A pre-FST Saudi group was compared with a cohort of U.S. Navy enlisted personnel. The results indicate that there was an overemphasis on the learning of technial facts at the expense of basic literacy and learning skills. While students had the necessary technical fact prerequisites, they could not effectively generalize that information or acquire and integrate new technical information. The results have been used as a basis for developing a revised curriculum.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA111445
Entities
People
- Douglas Fugate
- Thomas M. Duffy