title: Community applications of instructional technology: teaching writers of instructional packages.
abstract: A community education program, to develop a variety of performance competencies in large numbers of neighborhood residents, requires a technology for preparing learning units administerable by community members themselves. The effects of a writing manual, designed to teach nonprofessionals to prepare such instructional packages, were analyzed in two experiments. Experiment I employed a multiple-baseline design across three university student trainees. The results showed that appropriate program writing increased by 75% after completion of the manual. The results of Experiment II, with two low-income neighborhood residents serving as trainees, showed that packages produced by trained writers resulted in a greater increase in skill activities than sets of training stimuli produced by untrained writers.
authors.affiliation: University of Kansas.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Fawcett
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Fletcher