AN EVALUATION OF TEN TECHNIQUES FOR CHOOSING INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA

This report provides an evaluation of 10 fundamentally different techniques applicable for choosing instructional media for proposed Navy training programs. The method of evaluation used involved six training system designers each Oif whom applied the chosen techniques to a sample of seven representa-tive Navy training tasks. The results of this application were then ex-amined by a panel of experts who judged the appropriateness of the media chosen to the task's training requirements. This served as the basis for ranking the techniques in terms of their usefulness in the design of Navy training programs. The ratings for each of the top three ranked techniques were essentially similar in value. Based on these ratings, no clear cut superior« ity could be ascribed to any of these three techniques. Further, none of the techniques was found adequate for direct application to the Navy. However, one Df the three, the TAEG technique, was selected as the logical choice for frrther development. Guidelines for its modification are presented