WEEKLY REPORT NO. 15 12 - 18 APRIL 1962 ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION STAFF

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2001
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 19, 1962
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SUBJECT : Weekly Report No. 15
12 - 18 April 1962
Assessment and Evaluation Staff
1. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
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II. OMER ACTIVITIES
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Arrangements have been made b
to rent programmed instruction
oss e value To pency training programs. A total of
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four programs are being rented for critical evaluation by the Agency,
one each in the areas of computer programming, "career" English, elec-
tronics, and "executive practices". These programs are of the "branch-
ing" or"scrambled book" type, but are too long and complicated to
be presented as programed texts. Each program--about 40 hours long--
must be viewed on a special presentation device, called an AutoTutor,
which is also being rented from the company. The plan is to schedule
staff and students during the two months' rental period so the best
use can be made of the AutoTutor in evaluating these several programs.
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the programs, and the equipment, Wednesday morning, May 2n
ested members of the ADF Staff, TSD Training, and the Intelligence
School have been invited to attend.
Following approval last week by OSI of a proposal to spend
up to $5,000 on an experimental project to program a small portion
of the training materials for ballistic missile analysts,
arranged for the meeting this week between a representative of the
programming organization-
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will not be asked. For this trial effort--expected to result in a
training guide and, a program of about 300 frames--the subject selected
is unclassified: the characteristics of ballistic missile trajectories.
Now that a major segment of the "Observation and Description:
Persons" program is in final draft, it can be tried out on larger num-
bers of subjects. In a talk with Chief PPS, said that he
would be very much interested in an opportunity to further improve,
and to get measures of the effectiveness of, this program. Chief PPS
invited him to submit a proposal for this work, which is not expected
to be more than $2,500.
estimated that - could program the second part of
the "Observation and Description: Persons" program for approximately
$10,000. If OTR were to program a parallel self-teaching aid to train
students to observe and describe objects and events, it'would probably
cost a minimum of $15,000. - because of its research interests
does not, undertake "routine" programming assignments, a but 5 A9a
that it would be happy-to accept stimulating contracts of this sort.
Mr. James Sweene P.DP Training Officer for the Office of Naval
Intelligence, visited this week to talk about the possi-
bilities of using se - s a1 techniques to help solve serious
problems, that have recently arisen in ONI2 in familiarizing great num-
bers of naval personnel with computers and computer programming. Within
the past few days ONI has decided to spend $1,760,00 for the purchase
of an AutoTutor and several TutorFilms.
2. The Registrars Fiscal 62 budget includes funds for the purchase
of a "Flexowriter." Approval has been granted by the Executive Officer
and the Registrar to obligate this money, and the necessary steps are
being taken to order the machine.. The availability of this additional
punching equipment will permit an earlier start than was anticipated
on the Registrars' data, which will be prepared for punching by summer
employees.
3. Plans for a brief training program for "Flexowriter" operators
assigned to FE Division are nearing completion. A machine of the type
used by FE will be located in the A&E area. The program will cover
the mechanics of "Flexowriter" operation and practice with the dispatch
format used by FE for its teletape operations.
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discussion of the project on teaching lip reading of Russian (Weekly
Report #14, Item #1). Current plans are to give this course over an
11 day period, for an hour and a half per day, sometime during May.
Two groups of subjects, Russian speaking and non-Russian speaking,
25X1A9a are desired. of TSD plans to provide the non-Russian
speaking subjects and a convenient location for their instruction.
OTR help is desired in finding Russian speaking subjects (with Secret
clearances), who can be instructed at a site most convenient for them.
The instruction will be contractual obligatiUXIA5al
25X1ASa1 TSD. will make himself available for discussion of this
project with any interested persons.
III. PERSONNEL
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tend a similar offer next year.
has informed us that she will be unable to
spend time with us this summer, assessing JOTs (Weekly Report #12,
Section III, Item 1). She was already committed to attend a course
at Bethel, Maine prior to receiving our offer. She insists that she
wishes to maintain her affiliation with us and hopes that we will ex-
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