Memory Organization-Based Methods of Instruction: Rationale and Development

Designing a Gunnery Training Strategy

“…The process of dividing tasks into sequential parts for training has been termed segmentation (Naylor, 1962). Several researchers have suggested that segmentation should be congruent with the task subgoal structure (Hoffman, Drucker, Morrison, & Goldberg, 1983;Knerr et al, 1986;Morrison, 1984). That is, the "parts" for part training by segmentation should be behaviors related by the fact that they share a common task subgoal.…”

“…These phases of operation do not necessarily correspond to successive training requisites. In fact, Hoffman et al (1983) compared top-down and bottom-up training strategies using similar memory organization analyses and failed to find differences between the two approaches to sequencing. Hoffman and Morrison (1988) made rational, hierarchical analyses directly targeted at identifying the prerequisite skills and the instructional sequence for tank gunnery training.…”