THIS PROCEDURAL WORKBOOK WAS DEVELOPED FOR USE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY. APPROXIMATELY 1,100 PROCEDURAL STEPS PRESENT DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO FOLLOW IN BUILDING A FOUR-TUBE RADIO RECEIVER KIT WHICH USED A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD. THE TEST WHICH ACCOMPANIES THIS WORKBOOK HAS THE ACCESSION NUMBER ED 003 215. (JM)

The research reported here was initiated and designed to assess the impact of various schedules of incentive delivery (schedules of reinforcement) on performance and attitudes in an Air Force-related setting. Civilian subjects matching the characteristics of Air Force trainees were hired to work for four weeks, one week under each of four…

Research is described involving the development of a scoring system for performance evaluation. The example used is aircraft landing. Tables are included which give a suggested method for establishing a relevant scoring system in relation to this example. (DEP)

The socioeconomic backgrounds of typewriting students as such backgrounds affect typewriting performance is evaluated in this research. There is convincing evidence that socioeconomic factors play a significant role in affecting typewriting performance. Students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are almost always associated with the poorest…

The variability among students at the same grade level in the total number of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) units in mathematics and reading mastered during the year 1967-68 is presented in statistical form. Tabulations of the degree of variance show that individualization does occur within the IPI program. (SP)

If rehearsal can be identified with inner speech and if Vygotsky's theory of the development of inner speech is correct, then it should be possible to disrupt rehearsal by impairing articulation in young children. Performing a delayed short-term memory task with impaired articulation did not lead to a large decrement in performance as compared…

A preliminary Personal History Questionnaire used in obtaining information from all Cartographic Technicians in Federal service in August 1968 (about 1,500) is provided. The questions in the questionnaire cover a variety of areas, including a 130-item task list. (For related documents, see TM 001 408, 463, 464, 466.) (DB)

A shortened version of a learning-set training procedure was given to 80 children four and five years of age. These children and 16 untrained controls were then tested for quantity conservation. Results relate task performance on the conservation tasks to the type of training received. (Author/JMB)

Efforts on the part of administrators and boards of education to develop a rational evaluation procedure, coupled with intelligently conceived criteria to measure performance of administrators, would tend to remove much of the potential trauma that now exists in administrator evaluation. Discusses who should be responsible for the development of…

Describes a program that reduced turnover and overtime. (IRT)

This experiment was designed to examine the reinforcing effects not only of similar-dissimilar attitude statements, but also names of liked-disliked persons in a discrimination learning task. (Author)

Unlike previous studies, the present experiments simultaneously differentiated the stimulus events along more than one (binary) dimension. (Authors)

It was concluded from the date that satiation plays a determining role in the continued utilization of an acquired response while distraction is a primary determinant of acquisition rate. (Authors)

A total of 138 Canadian and American academic libraries employing more than 15 librarians were surveyed to determine how librarian performance is appraised. (24 references) (SJ)