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BOLYARD, A. JOYCE; SMITH, M. DANIEL – 1965
A SEQUENCE OF LEARNING TASKS WHICH USED NONVERBAL STIMULI TO INTRODUCE CONCEPTS OF VECTOR SPACES WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE SAMPLE WAS 20 CHILDREN FROM GRADES 5 AND 6 WHO WERE MATCHED ON THE BASES OF INTELLIGENCE, READING, AND ARITHMETIC ACHIEVEMENT. EACH STAGE OF THE PROGRAMED SEQUENCE WAS PRESENTED TO EACH SUBJECT AS A CONCEPT-FORMATION PROBLEM.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Grade 5, Grade 6
SEIBERT, WARREN F.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRELIMINARY ANALYSES WERE UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURE FILMS TO FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDIES OF HUMAN INTELLECT. OF PRIMARY CONCERN WERE THE OPERATIONS OF COGNITION AND MEMORY, FORMING TWO OF THE FIVE OPERATION COLUMNS OF GUILFORD'S "STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT." THE CORE REFERENCE FOR THE STUDY WAS DEFINED…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
McIntyre, William James – 1969
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the relative effectiveness of extension work as carried out under two different systems of county assignment -- the individual county system and the multicounty system. The system of personnel assignment was the independent variable; agent job performance was the intervening variable; and program…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, County Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Extension Agents
Woeste, John Theodore – 1967
The job performance of area-specialists and county agents in Kentucky and Indiana Cooperative Extension Services was measured; and relationships between their job performance and personal and organizational variables were identified. Data were collected by 350 self-reported work samplings per respondent during one work cycle in the Spring of 1966,…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Doctoral Dissertations, Extension Agents, Financial Support
Green, Margot Keith – 1977
This paper discusses a procedure for diagnosing adult educational needs, which the author developed and tested for her doctoral dissertation to study the work performance of attendant supervisors at a mental retardation facility. She describes the methodology used as ethnographic research, which entails an analytic description of a culture by…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Cultural Context, Data Collection
Bilger, Phyllis – 1979
This final report presents five products of a health occupations project conducted (1) to update health occupations data, (2) to field test a performance-based curriculum in secondary programs, and (3) to develop materials (domain-referenced tests) to predetermine student and/or job incumbent competencies prior to entrance into a developed…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Competence, Competency Based Education