WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 33, 7 AUGUST - 13 AUGUST 1957

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000300030061-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: August 13, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Intelligence School
FROM : Chief, Intelligence Faculty
svsJECT: Weekly Activities Report 33
7 August - 13 August
I. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
Nothing to report.
DATE: 13 August
1957
II. OTHER ACTIVITIES
A. 0 has completed a chart which presents the
analysis of the objectives of the Intelligence Research 25X1
Techniques course now under development. This analysis will
assist us in developing objective evaluative instruments for
the course. 25X1
B. Last week retested the students from the
second experimental, 4- week., 2- ours-per-day course. The E]
students who were retested from the 2"shorter duration courses
showed good retention of their skill gains. The average gains
made between pretesting before training and retesting
after the end of training, for
1-hoar-per-day course and for students who took the 4-week,
2-hours-per day course were:
Gain from Pretest to Retest
7 Week'Course Week Course
(1 hr. per day) (2::hrs. per da )
Test RaSccore* Rate* Score*
Scan for main ideas 106 1 206 10
Informational reading / 69 ,L 8 ..,.53 1 .7
14 22
Study _--
*Rate is in words per minute, and score is percentage of questions
answered correctly.
Since these results show that the 4-week, 2-hours-per-day
course is effective, and the students' critiques indicated they
prefer that schedule to the 7-week, 1-hour-per-day schedule,'we
will continue to schedule the course for 4 weeks, 2 hours per day.
However, we"will continue to study the results for larger numbers
of students.
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C. The training officer for OO/FBID requested the 25X1
Registrar OTR, to arrange for a special Reading Techniques
class for FBID staff members, to be scheduled after Labor Day.,
and to meet after 2 p.m. each day. We suggested that FBID
register the people for the course scheduled to begin 23 September,
so that they will constitute the entire afternoon section of the
regular 23 September class. This means that only vacancies re-
main in the 23 September class for other DD/I DDS and DD/P
components, since we cannot train more than people in one class.
D. has been informed that 26 August is the target
date for moving the Reading Lab to Quarters Eye. 25X1
E. The typing and reproduction of the readability study
were completed last week. The typing was accomplished by the
cooperation of several secretaries in the Intelligence School.
III. PERSONNEL NOTES 25X1
A. is on leave until Thursday, 22 August. 25X1
B. on military leave with the Air Attache Branch,
Directorate of Intelligence, is drafting a "package" map reading
course to be introduced in the briefing of Air Force personnel
prior to overseas assignment.
25X1
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