How is this different from Magers book on Objectives and Dick and Carys book on Instructional design?
The scope of the Interservice Procedures is larger than other instructional design publications. It is a master’s degree in a set of volumes. It is a training consultant’s handbook, filled with practical guidelines based on empirical science. The Executive Summary is the best explanation I know of for the process of targeted development of job-based instruction, as developed and taught by the pioneers of Instructional Design at Florida State University. It is also the only set of volumes that shows how Job Task Analysis fits within the process of Instructional Systems Development. Most instructional approaches start with the goal or objective of the training, but the Interservice Procedures shows you how to rationally determine what components of an existing job should become the objectives of the training. It is a set of volumes about the real world. How you make decisions based on job criticality, departmental funding, and the practical limitations of presentation of instruction. Uni
