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Improve Your Golf: Learn How to Concentrate.
Lodato, Francis J. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1978
The fundamentals of the program described require that the athlete analyze the task of swinging a golf club by scrutinizing it and by understanding each step and its importance to the goal. Mental readiness is stressed as well. (DS)
Descriptors: Golf, Psychomotor Skills, Readiness, Skill Development
Emergent Leadership Processes as a Function of Task Structure and Machiavellianism.
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Gleason, James M.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
Four-man groups participated in a model-building task as a group. Medium Machs were rated as leaders significantly more than High or Low Machs. Low Structure increased emergent leadership across Machiavellianism level, while High Structure increased group members' satisfaction. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Leadership, Leadership Styles
Climbing the Ladder to Leadership.
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Killian, Michael G.; Sexton, Michael J. – NASSP Bulletin, 1979
Ways suggested for principals to categorize tasks according to importance in order to allocate time more effectively. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility
The Relationship between Job Tasks and Objectives.
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Herschbach, Dennis R. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1979
Task analysis procedures are used to determine the instructional importance of job tasks, and objectives are structured directly from task analysis information. The author examines the translation of this information into instructional outcomes and the determination of the functional relationship between job tasks and instructional components. (MF)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Instructional Design, Job Skills, Task Analysis
The Theory of Learning by Doing.
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Anzai, Yuichiro; Simon, Herbert A. – Psychological Review, 1979
A theory is proposed of the processes which enable a subject to learn while solving a problem. One subject's protocol--including 224 steps and taking 90 minutes--is described. Adequacy of the mechanisms is guaranteed by a computer simulation of the processes in an adaptive production system. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
The Hierarchical Structure of Formal Operational Tasks.
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Bart, William M.; Mertens, Donna M. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
The hierarchical structure of the formal operational period of Piaget's theory of cognitive development was explored through the application of ordering theoretical methods to a set of data that systematically utilized the various formal operational schemes. Results suggested a common structure underlying task performance. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Secondary Education
Establishing Minimal Acceptable Performance Standards in Technical Training.
Gammuto, John J. – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Describes the Minimal Acceptable Performance Standards (MAPS), which measures worker performance at Consolidated Edison Company. Steps in establishing standards are: to identify tasks to be performed, to establish behavior-oriented objectives, and to write items for lesson-plan content. Sample MAPS forms for a "job performance walkdown"…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training
Generalizability of the Ordering among Five Formal Reasoning Tasks by an Ordering-Theoretic Method.
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Bart, William M.; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1979
Five Inhelder-Piaget formal operations tasks were analyzed to determine the extent that the formal operational skills they assess were ordered into a stable hierarchy generalizable across samples of subjects. Subjects were 34 collegiate gymnasts (19 males, 15 females), and 22 students (1 male, 21 females) from a university nursing program.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students