This article suggests that the union learning representative (ULR) is increasingly situated at the heart of trade union activity. The paper draws upon recent research based on interviews with national trade union officers and case studies of union learning activity to explore the competing demands being made upon ULRs and the implications for…

Reports the Research and Evaluation Department meeting at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (MU)

Behavioral Analysis and Standards for Employees (BASE) is a job analysis process that focuses on employee behavior and the standards and conditions for it. BASE is cost effective and enables participation of stakeholders. (SK)

Step-by-step preparation of performance goals in cooperative education described and illustrated with a prototype entitled, Applying for a Job.'' (MU)

This document contains the occupational duty/task lists for three occupations in the cosmetology series. Each occupation is divided into a number of duties. A separate page for each duty in the occupation lists the tasks in that duty along with its code number and columns to indicate whether that particular duty has been taught and to provide…

Explores the misconceptions that interfere with making performance goals perform. (Editor)

With the increase of federal funds for education, a new professional is emerging--the "evaluator"--whose role needs to be more clearly defined. He must not, first of all, take an absolutist position in his relationship to other educational experts or he will fail to get the cooperation of teachers and the support of powerful community groups.…

This article presents an interesting formula which organizes instruction for a course according to the proficiency to be attained at three different levels. (Editor)

Article from TRAINING TECHNOLOGY, v1 n1 pS1-S6, Sep 1969, a supplement to EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

Description of a management strategy for assessing performance goals called Job Task Systems Management (JTSM) focuses on a study of inspector jobs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The adaptation of business planning strategies to the government sector is discussed, and a job and task analysis is described. (LRW)

The authors offer a plan for a competency-based education program. Teachers need to follow three steps: (1) identify competencies needed by graduates, (2) plan and provide learning activities to develop the competencies identified, and (3) verify acquisition of competencies. (Office of Vocational Education, State Dept. of Education, P.O. Box 1131,…

This matrix and these word lists are intended for use as a practical working tool in the area of competency-based curriculum. In the curriculum terminology matrix, inclusions are primarily concepts critical to curriculum development. The matrix indicates whether terms are found in word lists for Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland,…