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Purnes advocated that the presentation of content in a training material must be intellectually sound according to the best thinking of the discipline that treats it as subject matter. He believes that subject matter specialists should help conceive and review the training materials (53:233).
The Florida Research and Development Council, realizing the necessity of carefully designing and validating training materials, recommended the following types of activities:
1. Develop a system for conducting reviews and
operational field tests of teacher training
materials.
2. Collect and classify available materials and
submit them to the established review process.
3. Identify potential procedures of training
materials and protocol materials.
4. Contract for the production of training materials
and protocol materials.
5. Plan for dissemination. (28:7)
In 1969 in a report of the Task Force of the NDEA National Institute for Advanced Study in Teaching Disadvantaged Youth, B. 0. Smith claimed that there were all kinds of pretentious models for teacher education but there were no materials for actually training the teacher (58:77). Since that time, institutions have begun to develop these materials (6)(7)(12)
(16)(35).
Research related to training materials is extremely limited. In a study undertaken for the National Center for the Development