Programanship: How to succeed in self-instructional programing without really trying

✍ Scribed by Richard E. Schutz; Robert L. Baker

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1966
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 317 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(196610)3:4<291::aid-pits2310030402>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

Developing a self-instructional program that will actually effect specified changes in student behavior is hard work. Ordinarily an effective instructional program of any sort is developed through a painful series of successive approximations in which the instructor concurrently clarifies the specification of his instructional objectives and refines his procedures for achieving the objectives. But this is the hard way. A functional analysis of commercial self-instructional programs currently available has yielded operational insight into a generalized system of programanship which appears to have been unconsciously followed by the overwhelming majority of programers to date without being explicitly verbalized. The purpose of this paper is to outline the basic structure of the system so that any or all of the masses interested in self-instructional programing can be assured of the undeniably desirable consequences of success without really trying.

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