This first phase of a project initiated to develop, demonstrate, and test curricula for the preparation and inservice education of vocational and technical education teachers, was devoted to determining the performance requirements of teachers. During this phase, 237 performance elements were identified through application of occupational analysis…

The pricing of household work can be based on standardized times established for component parts of the job. Techniques for determining these standardized times and the component parts were developed in a study conducted at Purdue University and supported by a federal grant. After a preliminary survey of homemaker practices in cleaning living…

Studied the effects of the relative and absolute salience of three dimensions (form, color and position) on the ability of four- and six-year-olds to employ multiplicative classification. (CW)

Does a task-centered approach offer a way to make casework more effective? A controlled experiment suggests that a client carries out a specific, agreed-on task more effectively when casework interviews provide guidance for this task. (Author)

This article outlines the characteristics of a European Research Group on Management (ERGOM) workshop and discusses some of the factors which make the ERGOM training method different from others. (Author/BP)

Ninety-four engineers were asked to describe their supervisors' leadership style, to indicate their expectancies whether performing effectively in their jobs would lead to job rewards and the valence of these rewards. Results indicated that leader consideration and employee expectancies operate in joint fashions to affect job performance. (Author)

Comparison of the performance on the discrimination task with that on the articulation task revealed that children with articulation disorders had significantly greater difficulty discriminating between consonants separated by one and two features than did the normally speaking children. (Author/RB)

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

Paper discusses in some detail the design of a problem-solving monitor and includes an annotated student protocol and the corresponding problem-solving graph. (Author)

The combined use of rational sets of concept instances and of a concept definition is validated as a powerful controllable variable in instructional material that is designed to facilitate concept attainment. (Author)

Based on a master's thesis submitted to the University of Illinois.