A study was made of 200 Cooperative Extension Service workers in New York State to identify appropriate curriculum content for training professional leaders in extension education. The critical incident method was used to discover behavior patterns characteristic of professional extension agents and of key importance in their work. Respondents…

Based on introspection and interview techniques of occupational analysis, pedagogical performance requirements were identified for teacher-coordinators of cooperative education programs. Another specific objective of this phase of the project "Model Curricula for Vocational and Technical Teacher Education" was to determine which…

This study represents one phase of a broader research project designed to develop and test the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI). The specific objective of the present investigation was to systematically derive a comprehensive set of work dimensions that could be used in describing and classifying jobs for educational purposes. The OAI was…

This study represents one phase of a broader research project designed to develop and test the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI). The study is basically a replication of an earlier study which derived a set of work dimensions for classifying jobs for educational purposes. Using a new sample of 400 jobs, the present study is designed to determine…

This first phase of a project initiated to develop, demonstrate, and test curricula for the preparation and inservice education of vocational and technical education teachers, was devoted to determining the performance requirements of teachers. During this phase, 237 performance elements were identified through application of occupational analysis…