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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald H. Rockland

industrial cost analysis course as one of the usefulcourses in the non-technical area, even though it is listed in the curriculum as a technical course.Of those respondents, 80% were in either the research or repair field as their first job position. In analyzing non-technical courses that were least useful in the graduate’s first position aftergraduation, forty percent of the respondents did not list course. Of the remaining students, one-third chose history. CURRENT POSITION COURSES/SKILLS Students were also surveyed as to what courses or skills would help them in their currentposition (see Table 2 for details on their current position). Almost 25% surveyed were interestedin “soft skill” courses. These courses

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher G. Braun

reach instructional objectives by about 30%. • Promotes equity in achievement. • Appears to be equally effective for knowledge and performance outcomes. • Can be used to teach "soft skills" involving social interactions (leadership techniques) • Interactivity is important. • Lowers instructional costs and appears to be cost-effective.Fletcher also cautions that a summary of research results such as presented in his papermust necessarily slide over many issues of intent, design, implementation, and evaluation.He details several caveats to the above conclusions including that the evaluations of thebenefits are often performed by the developers with a vested interest.Fletcher’s work3 also presents a