Research Context. Often instructional designers developing training materials for business or the military are not content experts. Similarly, content experts often are neither familiar with nor interested in learning training theory and methods. At the start of a training development project, there may be no job/task descriptions sufficient for instructional staff to undertake instructional development. The common dilemma then is how to efficiently work with content experts to make a task analysis and create other specifications which will enable the instructional staff to begin drafting instructional material. / A Novel Technique for Front-End Analysis. This study implemented and evaluated a novel technique to streamline front-end analysis for design and development of self-instructional texts on job tasks. The first stage of the technique involves one or more content experts completing a "large-grained analysis" of a topic, using a multiple-item instrument titled the "Topic Analysis Worksheet" (TAW). The second stage involves a more detailed, "fine-grained" topic analysis by the instructional staff using the TAW and resources named by the content expert(s). The end result is a full set of instructional specifications for the topic. / The instructional writer(s) then transmute the content into appropriate forms (e.g., graphics and text at an appropriate reading level) for placement in a prespecified standard lesson format. / The research involved a combination of descriptive information and quantitative data with specific, a priori criteria of success. The informative data were gathered by: (1) tracking tasks and times required to develop individual lessons plus related costs and materials consumed; (2) instructional design expert reviewing the completed lesson specifications; (3) content experts technically reviewing the lessons; (4) performance and attitude tests of learners; (5) structured interviews of project personnel, including the project instructional designer and writers to determine strengths of the technique as well as ways to improve it. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, Section: A, page: 0299. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76037 |
| Contributors | SHERMAN, SCOTT PULVER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 238 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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