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Brooks, Carl N. – Educ Technol, 1969
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Mathematical Models, Performance Criteria
Glaser, Robert; Glanzer, Murray – 1958
The report discusses four steps in the systematic development of human resources through training--specifications of training objectives, input control (trainee selection), training procedures, and output control (proficiency measurement). It then considers their implications for conducting training programs and training research. A primary…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Performance Tests, Program Evaluation, Research
Download full textHolloway, William H. – 1974
A prevailing concern of leadership development is the extent to which performance-oriented training increases the ability of an individual to define and implement a process to accomplish stated objectives. The systems approach provides an analytic strategy for task decomposition into sequentially, temporally ordered activities without necessarily…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Business Skills, Educational Administration
Osborn, William C. – Training in Business and Industry, 1974
A chart of the major action points in the course of developing tests for training evaluation and for qualifying trainees provides a framework for discussing the problems and practices of test development. Performance standards are the most common sources of trouble; the test developer must have unequivocal standards to work from. (AJ)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Performance Tests
Bates, Devon; And Others – 1967
This paper proposes an Evaluator Development Program to meet the need for improvement and development in educational evaluation. The objective is to enhance effective evaluation processes in elementary, secondary, and higher education through the institutionalization of evaluator roles within differential settings. The program involves the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Hodge, B. J.; And Others – Personnel Administrator, 1976
Outlines a model for evaluating management development programs. (IRT)
Descriptors: Management Development, Models, Program Evaluation, Task Performance
McManus, George P.; And Others – 1970
With the intent of developing plans for improving police training at all levels within the New York City Police Department, this project reviewed and evaluated the training and performance received at the municipal academy. Specific objectives of the project were to develop a model training program for staff at all levels, develop plans for…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, City Government, Job Training, Law Enforcement
Litrownik, Alan J. – 1978
The purpose of the project was to develop and evaluate a training program in self regulatory skills with approximately 40 trainable mentally retarded students (TMR) (mean age 18 years) and to determine the effect of the acquired self regulatory skills on task performance and self concept. In Phase 1, six preliminary studies attempted to determine…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Generalization, Learning Processes, Moderate Mental Retardation
Hampton, Leonard Albert – 1969
Using the critical incident technique, this study assessed the consistency between actual on the job behaviors of Cooperative Extension agents and their expected or inferred tasks as portrayed in a county agent role model encompassing 31 tasks and seven phases, and three broad categories of activity. Interviews were held with 204 Extension agents,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Bibliographies, Critical Incidents Method, Doctoral Dissertations
Ammerman, Harry L. – 1977
Designed to be of value to both occupational curriculum personnel and those persons concerned with noncurriculum issues of occupational description and updating of job content information, this volume is the second of a five-volume set describing a systematic approach for constructing task inventories, surveying the task performance of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Guidelines, Guides, Job Skills
Lindvall, C. M.; Cox, Richard C. – 1968
Three roles of evaluation used in Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) projects are defined in this monograph: the regular and systematic evaluation of pupil achievement for the purpose of adapting instructional experiences to individual needs, the continuing evaluation of all elements of a developing educational program as an aid to this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Developmental Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Individualized Instruction
MEYER, DONALD E.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF SIMULATOR TRAINING TO CRITERION PROFICIENCY UPON TIME REQUIRED IN THE AIRCRAFT. DATA WERE ALSO COLLECTED ON PROFICIENCY LEVELS ATTAINED, SELF-CONFIDENCE LEVELS, INDIVIDUAL ESTIMATES OF CAPABILITY, AND SOURCES FROM WHICH THAT CAPABILITY WAS DERIVED. SUBJECTS FOR THE EXPERIMENT--48 AIRLINE…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Criteria, Electronic Equipment, Experimental Groups
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1968
A self-evaluation of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) in mathematics made by Friends School (Wilmington, Delaware) is justified and presented in this report. First, the establishment of six objectives (student independence, mastery of basic skills and concepts, achievement rate and level; teacher diagnostic functions, prescriptive…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Lindsay, Carl A.; And Others – 1976
A project was conducted in Pennsylvania to determine what changes might improve the effectiveness of the State's adult basic education (ABE) program. Northcutt's construct of functional competency adult performance level (APL) and Mezirow's program evaluation model provided the basis for the project's two components: APL assessment and program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Rayder, Nicholas; And Others – 1972
The evaluation of the Learning Booth program is reported. The program involves a Learning Booth equipped with an electric typewriter and staffed by a trained attendant, a sequence of child-paced instructions, a training program for Learning Booth attendants, and other related materials. Two main objectives were evaluated: (1) offering a child an…
Descriptors: Attendants, Autoinstructional Aids, Job Training, Kindergarten
