THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A MULTIPLE CHOICE PROGRAM TO TEACH SYSTEMATIC FAULT‐FINDING IN ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

Abstract

During 1964 a requirement arose in H.M.S. Collingwood, the electrical school of the Royal Navy, for a formalised course in fault‐finding techniques in electronic equipments. Due to special shipboard requirements and the wide range of equipment to be serviced, it was necessary to base this course as broadly as possible. For this reason a basic method of fault‐finding was devised applicable to all equipments.

Drawing on the existing knowledge of programmed learning in the Royal Navy, and having regard to the conditions of operation of the course, it was decided that this method of fault‐finding should have instruction based on a program.

The paper covers the development of this program, the detailed testing of it and the scope of its present‐day use. This program has now been accepted as part of standard training in H.M.S. Collingwood, and is also in use elsewhere. Currently several thousand trainees have worked through this program.

Details of this development and testing have already received limited circulation in a report promulgated by the Department of the Director‐General of Naval Training, Ministry of Defence, reference R.N. Programmed Instruction Memorandum 3/66, written by Instructor‐Lieutenant T. H. Wingate, Royal Navy.

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*Note: The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Ministry of Defence (Navy).

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T. H. Wingate*

*Note: The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Ministry of Defence (Navy).