The study focuses on the development of a valid and reliable instrument to measure independent variables of cooperating teacher behaviors. The secondary purpose was to determine if any of the demographic variables pertaining to the student teacher and the cooperating teacher were important in assessing the performance levels of cooperating…

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…

This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of commonly used measures of job effectiveness, concentrating on a recent development in the field, the Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS); and proposes a new approach, the Behavior Description Index (BDI), which the author contends reduces or avoids most of the shortcomings of other…

This volume reports an effort to use the video media as an approach for the preparation of a battery of symbolic tests that would be empirically valid substitutes for criterion referenced Job Task Performance Tests. The graphic symbolic tests require the storage of a large amount of pictorial information which must be searched rapidly for display.…

This report describes the development of the Project ABLE General Woodworking Core Curriculum and is intended as an administrator's and instructor's manual for those schools field testing the instructional system. In the developmental process, analysis of a large number of occupations related to the woodworking family identified clusters or…

A study is reported in which the effects of 2 competitive treatments on mean classroom performance, interest and retention were examined with the use of a 10-day vocabulary-learning task. Sixty-six 5th grade classrooms were randomly assigned to one of 3 conditions: (1) control; (2) competition with reward; and (3) competition in a game setting.…

This report is the fourth in a series of four reports dealing with the development of performance-oriented driver education objectives through an analysis of the driver's tasks. Described in this volume are the methods used to develop a set of instructional objectives for driver education courses and an evaluation instrument for evaluating…

This report is the second in a series of four reports dealing with the development of performance-oriented driver education objectives and a set of measuring devices for evaluating attainment of the objectives. Included are descriptions of the analysis of driver's tasks and the evaluation of behavior criticality. During the analysis process, the…

This study, with a sample of 265 blue- and white-collar workers in six organizations, tests propositions from the theory concerning relationships between power used by organizations, commitment of workers to the organization, and task performance. (Author)

The relationship among the Piagetian concepts of identity, seriation, and transitivity was explored with preschool subjects. (JMB)

Subjects in kindergarten through 5th grade were classified as task oriented, information seeking or cue dependent. Then an experiment was performed to investigate relationships between these predispositions and the children's performance and self-perceptions as they worked on an external-cue-relevant or cue-irrelevant concept identification task.…

The hypothesis that a relationship exists between scores on an intellegience test and success in attempts at solving a writing task problem was supported for 15-16 year old boys. (Author/KM)