Reports (1) results of a pilot study undertaken to monitor the performance of minority management personnel and (2) characteristics of their immediate supervisors (raters) that influence perception, in order to design training programs to assist minority supervisors seeking advancement, retention, and tenure in the organization. (Editor/TA)

This study was designed to investigate the effect of individual versus group rewards on task performance. Four instructional sets, in which reward contingencies were varied, were employed with triads of first- and third-grade children. (BD)

The hypothesis that increased variety of rules aids subsequent transfer of learning has previously been affirmed (Bourne, 1970; Bourne and Guy, 1968). This research expands that finding to show that in addition to variety, the sequence of rules also affects transfer of learning. (Author/RK)

Subjects learned lists of words under conditions of high, medium, or low expectations concerning test-phase cheating and were then tested for recall with cheating precluded. Test performance of subjects expecting to be able to cheat was unexpectedly better, rather than worse, than subjects with low expectations, even when cheating was precluded.…

The Adult Performance Level Study generates a pulse of activity that is sending adults back to school to acquire or sharpen basic skills. (Editor)

Authority-task problems are organizational problems created by inconsistencies between the task process system and both the authority system and the formal hierarchy of offices. A new theory is used to develop a model that predicts how an administrator responds to an authority-task problem. (Author/IRT)

The speaker explained the UCLA Allied Health Professions Project to develop occupational analyses, curricula, and instructional materials for the health occupations. to be used in on-the-job training. At UCLA the concensus is that articulation and career mobility can best be achieved through a particular type of task oriented curriculum. (AG)

The study examined the performance of 72 intellectually average children in primary grades and 72 educable mentally retarded adolescents (mean mental age 8 years) on target subsets of work pairs when employed in mixed lists. (Author/MC)

A task was used in which subjects at three different Piagetian stages of intellectual development were to induce the missing relationship in different triadic situations. (Authors)

The major finding of the present experiment was that children as young a 7 or 8 (second graders) were able to employ an induced visual-imagery strategy to facilitate paired-associate learning. (Authors)

The determination of the extent to which generalizations derived from studies of rote verbal learning, particularly paired-associate learning applied to highly meaningful materials, was the focus of this study. It was found that discriminating tags to synonyms and antonyms permitting the application of appropriate transfer rules may be attached.…

Results show that both kindergarten nonconservers and kindergarten conservers found height most salient. Third-grade conservers found quantity most salient but could easily attend to height and width. (Author/CB)

Study investigated performance under the conditions of: presentation of noninteracting picture pairs, presentation of interacting picture pairs, and presentation of noninteracting picture pairs with instructions to create interacting images. (Authros/CB)

The present study was designed to clarify issues concerning the development of the relative capabilities of modal systems when information acquisition is equated for the modalities by sequential presentation. (Author)