THE COURSE-EVALUATION SYSTEM

Improving military and industrial classroom training is extremely impo rtant because of the critical nature and high costs of this activity. This article describes the Course Evaluation System (CES) which is a d iagnostic and prescriptive methodology for evaluating the quality of c lassroom training and suggesting remedial measures. The CES provides c ourse managers, instructional developers and classroom instructors wit h the capability to pinpoint training problems and to make corrective revisions. The use of this system is intended to result in more effici ent and effective training. The CES is based on the principles of syst ematic instructional development and on empirical work demonstrating e ffective instructional strategies. This methodology has been validated in several hundred applications. It consists of two major sections, t he objective-test item evaluation and the instructional presentation e valuation.