Implementation of a Cognitive Skills Training Program in ROTC: The Leadership Enrichment Program

Abstract

This report describes the planning and implementation of a program to improve the general cognitive skills of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets. This program, the Leadership Enrichment program (LEP), was largely the application of the Instrumental Enrichment (IE) program (Feuerstein, 1980) and was designed to take several years. But it had to be canceled after one year due to a shortage of resources before concrete results could be obtained. However, there were valuable lessons learned for those interested in one of the following: (1) cognitive skills training, (2) field research on training programs in the Army, and (3) conducting intervention programs in ROTC. This report both documents the work done and provides information for those with these interests. The IE program is described in some detail because it is an important program in itself and because any general cognitive skills program would probably have analogous principles and procedures. There is also information on the issues one has to deal with in implementing training programs and in conducting intervention programs in ROTC.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA181981

Entities

People

  • Carlos K. Rigby
  • Douglas L. Rachford
  • Joel M. Savell
  • Paul T. Twohig

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Land Navigation
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Science
  • Navigation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Schools
  • Social Sciences
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • Training

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • STEM Education