MINUTES FROM 1 AUGUST 1985 CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-00956R000100070006-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 2, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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2 August 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Curriculum Committee Members
Assistant Director of Training for Curriculum
SUBJECT: Minutes from 1 August 1985 Curriculum Committee
1. The minutes for the 29 July meeting were approved.
Responsible Curriculum Committee members will arrange for
curriculum reviews of the programs specified during the 3rd and
4th quarters of CY 1985. IT still has two outstanding course
announcements for courses approved during the 25 July meeting.
MATD and IT will develop course catalogs for Secretarial and
Intelligence Assistants' training.
2. briefed on the status of
the Looking Glass Simulation. They plan to offer between 5 and
7 offerings of the simulation during FY 1986.
presented several options for funding each running of the
simulation. The subsequent discussion centered on whether MATD
should purchase the license and certify OTE staff to conduct
the program. was advised to move toward developing
the in-house capability, and he should pursue purchase of the
licensing from the Center for Creative Leadership. Some
concern was expressed about overlap of Looking Glass and the
program on Creative Management. Generally, MATD has concluded
that there is some overlap but not significant enough to
negatively impact on either program. In many ways, MATD
believes POCM ought to be prerequisite to Looking Glass. MATD
will make a recommendation regarding prerequisites to Looking
Glass but hold until the DO need survey is completed.
indicated that they intend to do a study of graduates to
determine impact of Looking Glass on student behavior. He
received stong support for such a study.
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3. C/PDB, briefed on proposed changes
to the Advanced Intelligence Seminar (AIS). Her plan to
validate the content and objective was approved. She was
advised, however, that the "poll" should be confined to Agency
training officers. Chief, WOTS, cautioned that the DO need
survey was in progress and her poll in the DO might raise some
confusion. Hence will closely coordinate her
work with DO with ,There was a consensus that the
AIS should not be confined to GS-14 and 15 officers, but be
changed to include officers at the GS-12 and 13 level. Once
the poll has been completed, ADC will be briefed on the results
and will approve a proposed course outline.
presented the results of the ISTD evaluation ot e II
training course. A thorough and detailed need survey resulted
in recommendations by ISTD that the current two day GIMS II
course be divided into two courses. One course of a half day
duration would serve those GIMS users who need only the skills
to access menus, to retrieve data and update files. This
course would be offered once a month. A second, one and a half
day course, would be offered which would focus on elementary
GIM capabilities. This course would meet the need of those who
need skills in writing simple queries to GIMS.
The survey also showed a need for a third course which
would provide training in more sophisticated GIM skills. This
two and a half day course would include instruction in report
writing, formatting output, accessing dictionaries, linking
files and writing complicated queries.
Chief/CBTG, indicated that the more basic courses lend
themselves to self-study using computer based teaching
techniques. There was no consensus reached on whether
classroom instructions or CBE techniques were most effective
amd least costly.
The Curriculum Committtee asked to work
withF -1 to determine whether or not OTE should develop
the training using CBE. agreed to provide a cost
study and, in concert with C/CBTG, make a recommendation to
ADC. Approval of courses in GIMS was suspended pending
recommendations to ADC.
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5. C/TSD and C/RB presented a proposed outline of content
for the OTE catalog. The outline was approved. Members were
requested to submit their contributions on the sequencing of
courses to C/TSB by 19 August. C/RB will provide printouts of
the course descriptions which are to be reviewed and edited by
OTE units. ADC, C/TSB and C/RB will brief DTE on the proposed
catalog within the next week. Several units have outstanding
catalog descriptions; these are to be submitted as soon as
possible.
6. The next STO meeting is scheduled for 14 August (0900
DTE Conference Room). The only Agenda item at this time is the
MATD results of the Secretarial Survey.
7. The next Curriculum Committee meeting is scheduled for
21 August at 10:00 A.M. Members were advised that all Agenda
items which call for new course approvals, course evaluations
or curriculum evaluations must have accompanying documentation
submitted to ADC two weeks prior to Curriculum Committee
meetings. Otherwise, these items will be postponed to the next
scheduled session. This documentation is essential if the
committee hopes to effectively assess new course proposals or
course evaluations.
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