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Porter, Christopher O. L. H.; Webb, Justin W.; Gogus, Celile Itir – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010
The authors draw on resource allocation theory (Kanfer & Ackerman, 1989) to develop hypotheses regarding the conditions under which collective learning and performance orientation have interactive effects and the nature of those effects on teams' ability to adapt to a sudden and dramatic change in workload. Consistent with the theory, results…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation, Decision Making
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Grigsby, Clifford E.; Harshman, Hardwick W. – Mental Retardation, 1977
Nine trainable mentally retarded students (mean age 14.6 years) showed significant achievement gains over a control group in the skill areas of spatial perception, communication, welfare, health, and rules after participating in a behavioristic task analysis curriculum encouraging student decision making. (CL)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Decision Making, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation