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

The Tri-Cycle Process described in the model permits for the first time an integrated system for designing an individualized instructional system that would permit a rational, diagnosis-prescription-evaluation system keyed to an accounting system. (Author)

Incentive, practice, instruction, and feedback were manipulated in a series of four 2 x 2 factorial studies, with Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets and graduate students in education, to determine the individual and combined effects of these variables on learner performance (both speed and accuracy) of an aircraft comprehension task.…

Results suggest that familiarity may be a useful variable in Attribute X Treatment interaction research. (Author)

An experiment was performed to assess if, and how, attention to a problem solving task varies with anxiety level. It was hypothesized that high anxious children would glance away from a task more often than less anxious children, in light of research literature which suggests that high anxious children are inattentive to tasks in order to avoid…

THE INFLUENCE OF PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS VERBALLY EXPRESSED BY AN AUTHORITY FIGURE AND THE MANIFEST ANXIETY OF THE SUBJECT ON SIMPLE AND COMPLEX LEARNING TASKS WAS STUDIED IN RELATION TO MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN. THE HYPOTHESES TESTED WERE THAT THERE WILL BE NO DIFFERENCE IN PERFORMANCE ON THE EXPERIMENTAL TASKS AS A FUNCTION OF THE (1) VERBAL…

This paper examines the subject of "contract teaching", particularly as it relates to the field of instruction for physical education majors. Essentially, contracting for grades includes, "...an agreement between a teacher and a student at the beginning of a course as to the grade the student expects to receive and the amount and quality of work…

"Recognitional capacity"--the ability to recognize when procedures apply--is needed in order to perform tasks; this capacity cannot be replaced by higher-level procedures. As a result, guidebooks that attempt to provide step-by-step procedural accounts of task performance face an insurmountable barrier. User guides that attempt to show…

Strategies for instruction in performance oriented tasks were developed in three phases. Phase one was the preparation of appropriate strategies for a performance-oriented technician course. This phase (determination of current course status, current strategies, relevant characteristics of students and instructors, the course environment, and…

FAILURE OF A CLASSROOM EXPERIMENT IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION SCHEDULING BASED ON A CONTINGENCY CONTRACT BETWEEN TEACHER AND PUPIL WAS ATTRIBUTED TO LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EXPERIMENTERS, TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS (TEACHER ATTITUDES DID NOT CHANGE), AND LACK OF OPTIMUM CLASSROOM CONDITIONS. TO CORRECT THESE, A NEW UTILIZATION MANUAL…

A holistic and teleological approach to individualized FL instruction is proposed as a possible universal pedagogical theory. The following guidelines are offered. Broad goals and specific operational objectives should be defined, and performance testing devices developed. Each student's particular psychological aptitudes and physiological and…

A mathematical task was used among 432 junior school pupils in a search for personality-teaching strategy interactions. (Editor)

An Analysis of the teaching plans of adult educators in the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service and an examination of the relationship between the quality of the teaching plan for one lesson, the effectiveness of teaching performance as rated by supervisors, and personal experience factors of the educator were conducted. A 40% random sample was…