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| ACE | American Council on Education - the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities. They recommend equivalent college credits for members of the armed forces for certain types of military training and service experiences. |
| ADDIE | Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate - the five-phase instructional design and development model used to ensure effective and efficient production of learning products to meet Army learning needs. (TR 350-70) |
| AEAS | Army Enterprise Accreditation Standards - used to ensure quality, standardized, current, and relevant doctrine, training, education and leader development across Army components, branches, and learning institutions. |
| ALC | Army Learning Concept - describes a future Army learning environment that meets the need to develop adaptable, thinking Soldiers and Army civilians with the learning competencies to generate and sustain trained teams. The concept focuses on individual learning to enable individualized and career-long learning that is integrated seamlessly with unit training capabilities to support the conduct of joint combined arms operations. |
| ALM | Army Learning Model - The Army’s adaptive, continuous learning model that is routinely improved to provide quality, relevant, and effective learning experiences through outcome-oriented instructional strategies that foster thinking, initiative, and provide operationally relevant context which extends learning beyond the learning institution in a career-long continuum of learning through the significantly expanded use of network technologies. (TP 525-8-2) |
| ATRRS | Army Training Requirements Resource System - The Army system of record for training. A DA centralized management database that supports the HRC by providing accurate information for individual training and education conducted for Army personnel. Quota Management plans, coordinates, and oversees the programming, scheduling, documentation, and DA 3838 requests for all enlisted functional military healthcare functional course quotas, and functional courses conducted by MEDCoE (MEDCoE Reg 10-1) |
| BCA | Business Case Analysis - a structured methodology and document that aids decision making by identifying and comparing alternatives by examining the mission and business impacts (both financial and non financial), risks, and sensitivities. |
| CAD | Course Administrative Data - A Training Requirements Analysis System (TRAS) document that is the proponent's initial estimate or projection of a course’s administrative data and resource requirements; serves as a change document for submission of administrative and resource changes to a specific course or course phase; stimulates changes to the Army's institutional training management systems; and stimulates resource systems and processes needed to acquire the resource before the course implementation date. (TP 350-70-14) |
| CAR | Central Army Repository - provides a single access point to Army training resources, such as Field Manuals, Training Support Packages, Individual and Collective Tasks, Drills, Courseware and more. The CAR can be accessed on your desktop computer, or on your mobile devices. |
| CCM | Curriculum Committee Meeting - annual requirement to review course curriculum and proposed changes. Used for all types of courses. Can be used in lieu of a post-instructional conference. (MEDCoE Memo 350-32) |
| DOTD | Directorate of Training and Doctrine - responsible for analysis, design, development, and formative evaluation of training and education at MEDCoE. Also responsible for individual and collective training products. (MEDCoE Reg 10-1) |
| CMP | Course Management Plan - document that tells the course manager and instructors how to manage the course. (TP 350-70-14) |
| CoE (1) | Center of Excellence - a designated installation, centered on TRADOC core functions, that improves combined arms solutions for joint operations, fosters DOTMLPF-P integration, accelerates the development process, and unites all aspects of institutional training to develop warfighters, leaders, and civilians who embody Army values. |
| COE (2) | Council on Occupational Education - A regional accrediting association assuring quality and integrity in career and technical education, embracing a commitment to integrity and credibility |
| CP | CP Curriculum Plan - METC equivalent to a program of instruction (POI) |
| CRM (1) | Course Resource Module - A key component of the Army’s Instructor Resource Model (IRM). The Training Development Capability (TDC) system has been modified to support data necessary for CRM and provides a mechanism to capture the time instructors require to conduct training related activities above and beyond the scheduled class time (e.g., grading papers, monitoring threaded discussions, etc.). In TDC, this time is captured as Instructor Actions that can be associated to the total lesson or to individual learning objects. |
| CRM (2) | Comment Resolution Matrix - a standard matrix used to annotate comments and corrections during a document review. |
| CTSSB | Critical Task and Site Selection Board - a board of subject matter experts who meet to determine the critical tasks for a job/MOS based upon their expertise and the job analysis survey data. The CTSSB also prioritizes tasks for training. (TP 350-70-14) |
| DATE | Decisive Action Training Environment - a program that uses current intelligence to create intense, authentic training environments for the US Army training community. DATE is constructed using real-world conditions to challenge unit training objectives, but uses artificial data to provide a fictional setting that can be manipulated for suitability to any training event, to include decisive operations. (DATE 3.0) |
| DEPMEDS | Deployable Medical System - is a complex of air transportable units assembled to meet a specific mission. Critical modules are housed in rigid aluminum ISO-standard shelters, including laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, sterilization departments and operating rooms. A typical DEPMEDS hospital would include laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, patient wards, operating rooms and emergency medical treatment sections. |
| DMSET | Deployable Medical Systems, Equipment and Training - (deployable medical) site used as the culminating field event for most of AMEDDC&S military occupational specialty courses, made up of several Alaskan Shelter dome-shaped tents connected together to form a Combat Support Hospital with all the amenities of a brick and mortar hospital including a medical services clinic; treatment areas; two medical warehouses; chemistry laboratory; blood bank; pharmacy; X-ray machines; an operating room; 12-bed Intensive Care Unit and a 20-bed intermediate care ward. |
| DoTAA | Directorate of Training & Academic Affairs - has academic oversight/authority of all courses, including courses taught at METC. (MEDCoE Reg 10-1) |
| DOTMLPF-P | Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities and Policy (DOTMLPF-P) - parameters for the first step in the Functional Solutions Analysis (FSA). It determines/recommends if a non-material approach or a materiel approach is required to fill a capability gap identified in the Functional Needs Analysis (FNA). |
| DRAW | Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet - Army forces use this form (DD Form 2977) to document risk management (RM) steps taken during planning, preparation, and execution of any type of operation, including training and combat. |
| ELM | Experiential Learning Model - a five-step process (Concrete Experience, Publish and Process, Generalize New Information, Develop, and Apply) that provides a structured method for writing lessons, a versatile teaching approach that accommodates a wide range of effective teaching techniques, and a flexible framework for classroom management that is responsive to students’ varied learning paths within a diverse classroom setting. |
| ELO | Enabling Learning Objective - defines the skills, knowledge, or behaviors students must reach in order to successfully complete the Terminal Learning Objective (TLO). ELOs allow the TLO to be broken down into smaller, more manageable objectives. An ELO supports the TLO. (TP 350-70-14) |
| GLO | General Learning Outcomes - statements of essential knowledge, skills, abilities, and attributes resulting from training, education and experience at each level along a leader’s career. GLOs are provided to assist schools, unit leaders, and individuals to focus learning activities on developing leaders with the 21st century competencies. |
| GTA (1) | Gratuitous Training Agreement - An official agreement between the U.S. Army and a training institution by which the training institution agrees to provide extended on-the-job management training of mid-level Army Soldiers for a period of time, usually one year. |
| GTA (2) | Graphic Training Aid - a publication that assists during the conduct of training and the process of learning. |
| IA | Instructor Actions - categories of work performed by instructors that are not captured as Instructor Contact Hours (ICH). IAs are driven by the Program of Instruction (POI), specific to the POI and performed each and every time a POI is implemented. (TR 350-70) |
| ICH | Instructor Contact Hours - based on the course academic time and represents one instructor work hour during which an instructor/facilitator is in contact with a student or students and is conducting, facilitating, or performing instructor duties. (TR 350-70) (TP 350-70-9) (TP 350-70-14) |
| ICTL | Individual Critical Task List - The ICTL is the output of the CTSSB; it is the list of individual critical tasks that job incumbents must perform to successfully accomplish their missions and duties. (TP 350-70-14) |
| IPR | In-Process/Progress Review - a leadership-focused briefing providing the current status of an ongoing project or initiative. |
| ISAP | Individual Student Assessment Plan - informs students, instructors/facilitators, and other personnel of graduation requirements and also establishes how the proponent school will determine if the student has demonstrated a sufficient level of competency to pass the specified course; an ISAP must minimally note the assessment for each TLO. (TP 350-70-14) |
| ISR | Instructor-to-Student Ratio - the ratio that describes how many instructors are required to teach lesson, learning step/activity to a group of students. Ratios may vary based on restrictions imposed by equipment, safety factors, regulatory ratios, facility limitations, equipment ratios, and instructor limitations. (TP 350-70-14) |
| ISS | Instructional Systems Specialist - a subject matter expert (SME) on training and education who specialized in instructional design and development to ensure educational soundness of the training program. ISSs uses the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE) model to develop curriculum (AMEDDC&S HRCoE Reg 10-1) |
| ITP | Individual Training Plan - a long-range planning document that articulates the proponent’s career-long learning strategy for a MOS, area of concentration, or separate functional area. (AR 350-1) (TP 350-70-14) |
| ITR | Individual Task Report - provides the major procedures a Soldier must accomplish to perform an individual task to standard. A unit evaluator uses an individual task report to determine, at a given time, whether or not the task was performed to the standard under the prescribed conditions. (TP 350-70-1) |
| ITRO | Inter-service Training Review Organization - a voluntary organization of the military services established to set policies and procedures for Inter-Service training. The ITRO is hierarchical and consists of boards and committees with representatives from all Service Components, resource managers, quota managers, and training specialists within and outside the MEDCoE. (MEDCoE Reg 10-1) |
| KM | Knowledge Management - generates integrated applications, processes, and services that provide the capability for effective operations. Develops techniques and procedures to design a systematic KM environment (e.g., intranet, extranet, milSuite, Blackboard, automated critical business processes) to provide the force with an “electronic” method to stay connected to information, knowledge, and training. (MEDCoE Reg 10-1) |
| LSA | Learning Step/Activity - the foundation for a lesson. LSAs also provide a structured means to focus learning on a small part of what a student needs to learn, and provide the basis for identifying specifications, including such items as the method of instruction and resources required to present the lesson. (TP 350-70-14) |
| LSGCO | Large Scale Ground Combat Operations |
| METC | Medical Education and Training Campus - a United States Department of Defense integrated campus under a single university-style administration, with nearly 50 programs of study available to U.S. military enlisted students. METC is located at Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston and includes staff and students from the Army, Air Force, and Navy medical training co-located at JBSA Fort Sam Houston. (METC Handbook) |
| METT-TC | Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops, Time and Civilians - during mission planning, hazards are identified by applying mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time and civilians framework. This framework is set to help military commanders prioritize what they need to analyze during the planning of a mission. Usually the civilian analysis is considered when the mission is to take place in an urban terrain. |
| MOA | Memorandum of Agreement - a written agreement between two or more parties wishing to work together on a project or to meet an agreed upon objective. The MOA serves as a legal document and describes the terms and details of the parttnership agreement. |
| MOI | Method of Instruction - A type of activity used to facilitate the accomplishment of the learning objective(s). Specific methods require varying degrees of learner participation. (TP 350-70-14) |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding - also referred as a memorandum of agreement, is a formal business document used to outline an agreement made between two separate entities, groups or individuals. A MOU usually precedes a more detailed contract or agreement between the parties |
| MTA | Medical Training Agreement - An official agreement between the United States of America and a training institution, by which the training institution and MEDCoE agree to assign military residents to the training institution for clinical rotations. |
| MTC | Mission Training Complex - a facility on Fort Sam Houston used to duplicate the operational environment by employing digital training systems and peripheral equipment to simulate mission conditions rather than taking an actual brigade/battalion/team of Soldiers to the field. |
| OE | Operational Environment - the composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of commanders. (Joint Publication 3-0) |
| OIP | Organizational Inspection Program |
| PETDB | Professional Education Training and Development Branch |
| PIC | Post-Instructional Conference - annual review of curriculum, course status, and required changes, used for Professional Military Education courses. PIC be used in lieu of a curriculum committee meeting. |
| PME | Professional Military Education - general term used by all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces to describe the formal system of education each branch provides to its enlisted and officer personnel. |
| PMESII-PT | Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure and Physical Environment and Time - framework for thoroughly and systematically analyzing and understanding any potential Operational Environment (OE) and all the challenges and opportunities inherent in it. (Operational Environments to 2028: The Strategic Environment for Unified Land Operations) |
| POI | Program of Instruction - the most complete institutional training resource document prepared for all courses. It provides a specific description of course content, duration of instruction, types of instruction, and lists resources required to conduct the course/phase. The POI is organized by blocks and units in the preferred sequence of instruction. (TP 350-70-14) |
| QA | Quality Assurance - part of quality management focused on providing confidence that all requirements have been met. |
| QAO | Quality Assurance Office - an MEDCoE Special Staff element responsible for the quality assurance program. The QAO evaluates courses, products and services against the Army Enterprise Accreditation Standards to ensure compliance and to identify areas for improvement. |
| QC | Quality Control - the systematic use of checklists and other tools to control product quality. QC is conducting throughout the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluations (ADDIE) process in ensure Army standards are met and learning outcomes are achieved. |
| ROC Facility | Rehearsal of Concept Facility - large indoors training event location that provides training and doctrine developers an opportunity to explore lessons learned from current operations, emerging technology and force reshaping challenges to identify recommended ways ahead for the institutional and operational Army. |
| SEAP | Student Evaluation Assessment Plan - Medical Education Training Campus (METC) equivalent of Individual Student Assessment Plan (ISAP) |
| STP | Soldier Training Publication - series publications that support individual training. Commanders, trainers, and Soldiers will use these to plan, conduct, sustain, and evaluate individual training of warrior tasks and battle drills in units |
| TADSS | Training Aids, Devices, Simulations and Simulators - general term that includes training instrumentation; tactical engagement simulation (TES); battle simulations; target; training-unique ammunition; dummy, drill, and inert munitions; casualty assessment systems; training aids; and other training support devices. (AR 350–38) |
| TASS | The Army School System - a composite school system composed of fully accredited and integrated Army, Army National Guard (ARNG), U.S. Army Reserve (USAR), and active Army (AA) schools that provide standard resident and nonresident instructional training. TASS training battalions are functionally aligned with the training proponents (TR 350-18) |
| TDC | Training Development Capability - the automated development tool used to provide and inform Army electronic repositories and other automated development tools with learning content and resource requirements. Currently TDC only supports input of unclassified learning content. (TR 350-70) |
| TLO | Terminal Learning Objective - is the main objective of a lesson. The TLO describes in observable, measurable terms what the learner must do at the end of the lesson to demonstrate acceptable performance. (TP 350-70-14) |
| TRAP | Training Resource Arbitration Panel - the process to adjust the Army execution year institutional training and education requirements. During the TRAP process, resources constraints such as personnel, equipment, facility, and money are identified when the training load increases beyond available/programmed resources. (TP 350-70-9) |
| TRAS | Training Requirements Analysis System - long and short range planning and management process for timely documentation of individual courses and supporting resource requirements. TRAS is applied to peacetime and mobilization learning products for inclusion in resource acquisition systems. (TP 350-70-9) |
