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\nJoe Harless  \nJerome P.LysaughtFrancis A.CartierEditorial Board  \nNATIONAL OFFICERS  \nGeary A.Rummler  \nPresident  \nRobert T.Filep  \nPresident-Elect  \nC.Glenn Valentine  \nVice-President  \nRobert H.Nassau  \nSecretary  \nCarlton B.Downing  \nTreasurer  \nGabriel M.Della-PianaPast President  \nCURRENT SUSTAINING MEMBERSTrinity UniversitySan Antonio,Texas  \nJohn Wiley and Sons,Inc.  \nGeneral Programmed Teachinga Division ofCommerce Clearing House,Inc.  \nInstitute for Computer AssistedInstruction,Inc.42 East Court StreetDoylestown,Pennsylvania  \nWoolman Systems,Inc.292 Madison Ave.New York,New York  \nIndiana UniversityBloomington,Indiana  \nPraxeonomy Institute,Inc.New York,New York  \nCONTENTS  \n4.Potentials and ProblemsIn CAI Research  \n9.Learning Poetry Backwards  \n14.Rx For R&D:IndividualProgress in Living ColorA Review of Rx for Learning  \nSUBSCRIPTION RATES  \nThe NSPI Journal is the official publication of theNational Society for Programmed Instruction,Trinity University,715 Stadium Dr.,San Antonio,Texas 78212.Annual subscription—$12.00 for non-members,$5.00 for members as part of annualdues.Published monthly except June and August.Second-class postage paid at San Antonio,Texas.Foreign postage $1.50.  \nADVERTISING INQUIRIES  \nSend to the Managing Editor,NSPI JOURNAL,Trinity University,715 Stadium Dr.,San Antonio,Texas 78212.  \n\"  \nSHOULD PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION GO“UNDERGROUND?”  \nGeary A.Rummler  \ninstructors,all of whom we perceived asrepresentatives of the“establishment.”Thescene was a familiar one.I considered thetwo alternative strategies,given the timeavailable(each of us had 20 minutes for ourfirst presentation).Should I attack and ex-press my hostility for all my years as a stu-dent and for the general reluctance of themto being believers?I opted for the secondalternative,which was to tell them about ourmovement,its potential for all,and howwe would meet with them any time and any-where for a peaceful integration of theirsubject matter and our technology.My stra-tegy was,if not to educate them,at least notto scare them to death and thus avoid evok-ing the“mechanistic,narrow behaviorists”responses.And I did make such a presenta-tion with the desired results(or non-results?).  \nhree or four years ago there was a genu-ine concern(and possibility)that the“edu-cational revolution”might be halted and pro-grammed instruction would go \"under.\"Thisis hardly the case now.Dollar-wise and ac-ceptance-wise,things were never better.But,in an effort to be even more successful,thereare some signs that the revolution(and inparticular,programmed instruction)is going\"underground.\"  \nRecently,a member of a publishing firmwhich has successfully.marketed program-med materials to school systems,pointed outthat they no longer emphasize that the ma-terials are programmed.\"Look,\"he said,thumbing through one of the programmedtexts,\"this is a book,right?Everybody likesbooks.These particular books happen tomake it possible for the student to respond,but basically it's a book.And basically it'sthe same as what the teacher and the systemare used to purchasing and using.”  \nBut the second speaker couldn't stand thestrain.He warmed them up by stating hisorganization was in the remedial business —that of repairing students which they(theestablishment as a whole)had managed tofoul up through their general instructionalineptness.You can imagine the rest.So could  \nThis is hardly an isolated instance.Therehas been a trend among industrial trainingpersonnel lately to describe their program-med materials as“Self-Study Manuals”or\"practic units\"when not in text form.\"Why,\"I asked?\"It saves a lot of time and explana-tion.I don't have to worry about any'Haw-thorne effect'in the classroom-because thistraining is billed as new and different-or ar-guments with management about changingour approach to training.\"Another ","cbCaibvZMsHZ9aiz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibvZMsHZ9aiz","pdf",1175267,16,"English","# 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