Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit explains how maintenance work should be described, measured, and classified. It is designed for supervisors who need to know the mechanics of describing work. The format is a programed, self-instruction approach in which information is presented in progressive segments or…

The benefits of clustering organizations into types were discussed, and a method for clustering life insurance agencies by climate profiles was presented. Clusters of life insurance agencies were identified on the basis of manager, assistant manager, and already-employed ("old") agents' climate perceptions. Agency success, including production of…

Providing an education that meets the needs of individual learners has generated a variety of programs to individualize instruction. This variety has motivated the development of a descriptor to relate features of instructional programs which offer individualization. This descriptor identifies, quantifies, and graphically represents the…

A law was enacted during the session of the 1971 Washington State Legislature establishing definitions and procedures for residence classification. In the 1972 special session of the legislature, the 1971 residence law was amended to clarify several questions relative to the original legislation. At that time it was determined that the Council on…

Data are analyzed to examine systematically different configurations of work education by means of a typology in three dimensions: educational level, primary program purpose, and industrial setting. A stratified random sample of 50 work education sites was drawn to determine the degree to which different types of programs are meeting their…

An approach for developing examinations to assess the proficiency of health care professionals which utilizes a task inventory methodology is described. Examination development is based upon the identification of health care functions which individuals within a specific category of health professional should be skilled in performing. The several…

The purpose of this bibliographic essay is to make school librarians aware that inexpensive publications are available from both state and federal governments on the subject of school librarianship. Because many school librarians do not use either the "Monthly Catalog" or the "Monthly Checklist," this literature was searched…

The purpose of this study was to improve the reliability of the Sigel Cognitive Style Test. Post hoc analysis of ninety test protocols had indicated that the original thirty-five card test could be shortened to improve the test's reliability. This analysis also showed that males were responding to certain cards differently from females.…

This report is concerned with the classification, education, training, and earnings of technicians. The report seeks an operational definition of the term "technical" and examines how one classifies individuals into the technical category. Improved methods of occupational classification are sought, using the statistical technique of discriminate…

A sequence of problem solving tasks of classification of geometric forms and biological organisms based on Piaget's theory of learning were developed and tested with elementary school children. One experiment involved third grade subjects with one treatment group directed to learn both simple and hierarchical operations, a second group directed to…

The study of teacher attitudes investigated the issues of identification and labeling of children as mentally retarded in relation to social class and out of school adaptation. Nine student profiles giving identical school performance and testing information but differing in information on social class and behavior outside school were the bases of…

This paper examines interaction in a school class through the factor-analytical P-technique, considers the behavior of the factor scores in combination with certain other variables included in the interaction matrix, explores the formation of homogeneous groups of lessons in a grouping analysis based on the factor scores, and compares this latter…

This study examines quantification of the instructional process through the use of Markov chaining, and by considering the transition probabilities within a framework provided by the taxonomy used, attempts to obtain information about behavior sequences common to all lessons. (Author/DLG)

The procedures utilized in constructing test items designed to measure intermediate grade children's level of attainment of selected classificatory science concepts are described. Tests were prepared to measure children's level of concept mastery for 30 concepts, 10 each from the areas of biological science, earth science, and physical science.…

This report was prepared by the Careers and Curricula Program, which is a career development and guidance program sponsored by The Center for Social Organization of Schools. As one of five Center programs which develop scientific knowledge of the schools' effects upon students and utilize this information to improve educational practices, this…