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Nosin, Jerome Alan – 1978
Expansion and modification of a 27-item Delphi derived form for assessing campus police performance resulted in a 43-item form to measure job performance of correctional officers in the Georgia Department of Corrections. The self-rating scale, with a reliability coefficient of .995 (n=120) was subjected to factor analysis and varimax rotation and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Correctional Institutions, Job Performance, Job Skills
Morocco, Paul Edward – 1978
The relationships between feedback, its source, and the increases or decreases of the behavior associated with it were investigated to apply predictions of the credibility gap regarding the effects of feedback on the acquisition of an individual skill. Subjects (N=45) were randomly assigned to one of five treatment conditions and provided…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Credibility, Feedback, Helping Relationship
Piliavin, Irving; And Others – 1979
The quality of effort among public assistance personnel has been criticized virtually since the inception of welfare programs for the poor. However, until recently, empirical information on the performance of these workers has been nonexistent. The present study, concerned with Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) case decision errors,…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Decision Making, Error Patterns, Federal Aid
Download full textFrankel, Arthur; Snyder, Melvin L. – 1978
People often perform poorly on tasks following experience with unsolvable problems. Two competing explanations for this performance deficit (learned helplessness and egotism) were tested. Subjects were given either solvable or unsolvable discrimination problems and then a series of anagrams which were alleged to be either highly or moderately…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Style, Individual Psychology, Information Seeking
Bono, Stephen F.; Keenan, John B. – 1979
A fading procedure to maintain student pacing in personalized instruction courses in two settings--a small educational psychology course at a public university and a large psychology course at a private university--was investigated. Students in both courses were divided into two groups. The first group had gradually lengthened unit completion…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Drummond, Robert J.; Vitro, Frank T. – 1975
The study investigated the effects of practice on the mastery of two industrial arts skills (hammering and sawing). The major question asked was whether a film followed by practice leads to better mastery than a film presented without practice. The relationships among cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects of the task were explored. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Larwood, Laurie; And Others – 1975
Ninety-six male and female undergraduates participated in a test of the influence of sex role on performance in a masculine task. Subject sex, norm (challenging or not challenging), and experimenter (male, female, or no experimenter present) were varied in a 2 x 2 x 3 design. When challenged, subjects worked more successfully in the presence of a…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavioral Science Research, Females, Goal Orientation
Staats, Arthur W. – 1968
Psychological researchers should deal with the concrete stimulus-response principles of learning on which behavior is based, and study behaviors that are representative of real life behaviors. The present research strategy has come from two faulty ideas: first, a concern with underlying, inferred mental processes, rather than with actual tasks or…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Experimental Psychology
Stein, Joan Lerner; Budoff, Milton – 1973
Compared were performances of 39 educable mentally retarded (EMR) Ss, mean chronological age (CA) 11 1/2 years, mean mental age (MA) 7 3/4 years; 25 fifth graders matched on CA; and 27 second graders matched on MA to determine whether children of different ages and IQ spontaneously demonstrate learning strategies after repeated practice with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences
Foley, John P., Jr. – 1973
An overview of the Air Force's Research and Development Program for the Improvement of Maintenance Efficiency is provided. First described are the steps found in any detailed task analysis, a process which results in the complete specification of each task involved in an overall maintenance effort. The factors influencing maintenance effectiveness…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Skills, Maintenance, Measurement Instruments
Meyers, Joel; Dunham, Jack – 1971
The purpose of this study was to broaden the aptitude by treatment interaction paradigm. The relationship between memory span and performance in two different transfer conditions was examined, and task involvement and anxiety were considered as they contribute to the relationship between aptitudes and performance. (CK)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Interaction
Hansen, Joe B. – 1972
Ninety-eight undergraduate education majors received a battery of ability tests, measuring general reasoning, associative memory, and trait anxiety and were randomly assigned to three groups--no feedback, feedback, and learner control--for a computer-assisted instruction course on Xenograde systems (an imaginary science). Four state anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Mazurkewicz, Dolores T. – 1973
The effects of performance feedback of success and failure given by partners to 96 subjects of the same or opposite racial groups were measured in terms of subsequent performance on a paired-associate learning task and number of negative and positive adjectives checked for self and partner. Analysis of variance showed that the procedure yielded a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Blacks, College Students
CONCANNON, SISTER J. – 1966
THE IMPACT OF TWO TREATMENTS OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES ON THE ABILITIES OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES INVOLVED PRINCIPLES OF HAPTIC (TACTUAL) PERCEPTION IN THE PERFORMANCE OF VARIOUS TASKS. CHILDREN, AGES 3 THROUGH 5, FROM HIGH AND LOW ECONOMIC LEVELS WERE SELECTED AS SUBJECTS. AN ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF THEIR HAPTIC…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Group Instruction, Individual Instruction, Kinesthetic Methods
TEMPLIN, MILDRED C. – 1966
A COMPARATIVE, LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO EXAMINE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF DEAF AND NORMAL CHILDREN ON SELECTED COGNITIVE TASKS. THE SAMPLE, DISTRIBUTED INTO 3 AGE CATEGORIES, CONSISTED OF 72 NORMAL AND 60 DEAF CHILDREN. MEASURES WERE SELECTED TO ASSESS THE PERFORMANCE OF SUBJECTS (1) IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF COGNITION, (2) BY…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis, Deafness
