Learning of Procedures in Navy Technical Training: An Evaluation of Strategies and Formats

Abstract
This study compared the effectiveness of three types of handbooks utilized by students in learning to perform procedural tasks. The handbooks are the traditional narrative presentation, the job performance aid, and the learning aid. The study is the second in a series for the Naval Technical Information Presentation Program (NTIPP) conducted by the Training Analysis and Evaluation Group (TAEG) in the design of machine producible instructional formats compatible with the learning guidelines in the Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development. These formats were conceived to provide effective support for learning and were designed to be constructed by computer routines from basic task information stored in a digital data base. In this study, the Job Performance Aid and Learning Aid were the machine producible formats. The main conclusion was that the learning aid format was superior to the other formats tested when the goal was to have students accurately perform the procedure from memory. However, if the goal was to teach verbal information about the procedure, such as nomenclature or system theory, none of the formats appeared to be adequate.

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