A Formative Evaluation of a Computer-Based Instructional System for Teaching Job-Oriented Reading Strategies.

摘要

On-the-job training requires considerable independence on the part of the trainee. Unlike a student in a classroom, the trainee must arrange information resources in such a way that he can learn how to perform his specific task without wasting valuable time reading irrelevant information. He must further direct this learning himself. A computer-based aid to self-directed learning has been developed to meet this need. This aids system is implemented on the PLATO system and uses the touch-panel capability of the PLATO-IV terminal. Students are presented with a task which requires complex learning, and they are given considerable information -- much more than is needed, in fact -- to attain the task. The aids system is designed to allow students to break down their task into a set of more easily attained objectives, to decide when information is relevant to their objectives, and in general to monitor their progress toward achieving the task.