The article discusses the relationship between mental health and labor accidents as it pertains to accident prevention, treatment of accident victims, and their rehabilitation. It also comments briefly on mental health and occupational diseases and the scope of the field of occupational mental health from a Chilean perspective. (AG)

Describes one approach to individualized job preparation instruction, a performance-based training system designed to meet the needs of both trainee and employer. The system includes a performance profile of job elements, skills, and levels of competency which serves as a lifetime record of curricula and performance on each activity for a trainee.…

The author describes a method for scoring Flanders' Interaction Analysis Categories when trainee teachers' competence in coding a typed transcript is being assessed. (GW)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job satisfaction of teachers and perceived school effectiveness. Questionnaires were distributed to teachers in 75 elementary schools in Ontario, Canada. A job description index and the concept of organizational effectiveness were used to measure job satisfaction variables of work,…

The relationship between job involvement and satisfaction in white collar employees of an industrial organization in Israel was studied. Job involvement was related significantly to job satisfaction; however, the relationship was mediated by organizational factors. (Author/BEF)

The effects of two types of play experiences (constructive and dramatic) on 64 preschool children's perspective-taking performance were studied. (Author/MP)

Two simple quantitative models were derived from a series of experiments which explored the role of information storage in working memory when performing mental arithmetic. The decay model is a tractable analysis of a complex task which assumes a decay process in working storage. Similar analyses are recommended for problem solving activities…

Commissioned by the Programme on Teacher Policies within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a team of educators, school administrators, and research workers prepared this report aimed at demonstrating how new patterns of teacher tasks emerged from educational development work in the Malmo region of Sweden. Primarily,…

Two components of teaching are tasksetting behavior and optimizing behavior. The former is the actions of the teacher to achieve the goals of teaching a specific curriculum; the latter is the actions of the teacher to improve or accelerate the pupil's learning. Reading and physical education teachers were studied to investigate the relationship…

The use of an elaborative process by kindergarten children in the performance of verbally presented arithmetic addition problems was investigated. A static rather than dynamic verbally described relation between stimulus sets resulted in more correct responses for two of nine Developmental Level X Prompt Condition groups, supporting the use of…

Concern about the continued competence of professionals is manifested by several professional groups in Canada. To protect the public and to inform professionals of new trends in their field, professional groups have begun to require mandatory professional development from their members. (EC)

This report is an analysis of an investigation of staffing requirements for librarianship and information work carried out between 1972 and 1975 under the title of Sheffield Manpower Project. The results of the administration of a job descriptive questionnaire to members in a representative 45 per cent sample of libraries and information units (19…

To examine the contributions of specific kinds of occupational training to the productivity of workers with different levels of formal schooling, interviews were used to collect data on general education, trade training, work experience, environmental characteristics, and general ability from 598 turners, millers, and grinders in two factories in…

Problems encountered in cross-cultural research are discussed in this report which describes a study of the relationship between social class differences and maternal teaching patterns of 2- and 3-year-old children. The study involved a total of 63 mother-child dyads from middle- and working-class groups in Bristol, England and 34 Kuwaiti…