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A system designed to assist training managers or evaluators in increasing the effectiveness of military training programs has been developed, tested, and refined. The Training Program Evaluation (TPE) system offers advantages over traditional approaches of assessing program effectiveness. TPE involves the direct observation of training and testing and does not rely on second-hand accounts of training given by trainers or trainees. Neither does TPE require the construction and administration of specially designed tests to evaluate soldier performance, but uses instead the tests routinely given after each block of instruction. During its development, TPE was frequently field tested to determine its utility to the Army. The major test of TPE came during the M1 tank Operational Testing Cycle III (OT-III), where TPE was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the M1 transition training program and to suggest program improvements. The utility of TPE was demonstrated during the M1 OT-III, where several agencies used TPE to gather training effectiveness information that was used to improve the training program. Lessons learned during the field testing of TPE have been incorporated into the TPE system, resulting in a useful product. (Author/KC)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert