This study of self-reinforcement in children's learning looks at two key variables in the self-reinforcement process: the type of reward available and the level of achievement requisite for reward. The study was conducted to clarify the relative efficacy of self-dispensed verbal and tangible rewards for learning. The study also attempted to…

The manual was designed to help vocational education curriculum experts learn procedures for constructing task inventories and for analyzing occupational performance. The manual opens with definitions of a task inventory and other terms, and an overview of the procedure. The first six steps involve the overall construction of an initial task…

The U.S. Office of Education is undertaking a program of research and development designed to reach the following objective: 100% of all persons not in permanent care institutions must pass, by age 10, a criterion-referenced test which is predictive of competent performance on a set of adult reading tasks selected to have favorable returns to the…

In this study of errorless learning a procedure is tested which allows the subject himself to adjust the speed at which a supplementary stimulus aid is withdrawn. A standard match-to-sample apparatus with 1 sample window above and 4 matching (response) windows below was used. Tokens were delivered for correct responses and the correct matching…

The effects of task complexity and vicarious reward upon children's ability to learn a substantial educational task through modeling were investigated. After observing a models performance, all subjects (elementary school students) were offered direct reward for matching responses. Accuracy of imitative learning was inversely related to task…

To develop General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) norms for the occupation of photograph finisher, 59 female workers employed as photograph finishers in Wisconsin were administered all 12 tests of the GATB and the Research Questionnaire-Background during July 1969. Supervisory ratings of job proficiency were made at approximately the same time as…

An Analysis of the teaching plans of adult educators in the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service and an examination of the relationship between the quality of the teaching plan for one lesson, the effectiveness of teaching performance as rated by supervisors, and personal experience factors of the educator were conducted. A 40% random sample was…

Therapeutic implications of the learned helplessness model of depression were tested. (Editor)

The NASA ranking task and similar ranking activities used to demonstrate the superiority of group thinking are examined. It is argued that the current scores cannot be used to prove the superiority of group-consensus decision making in either training or research settings. (Author)

This paper describes the development of an operations management model and its implementation in a simulation mode in order to study the effects of alternative organizational designs and person/work assignment criteria on the utilization of the technological and human resources of a firm. (Author)

Presents evidence that the sex gap in both math performance and attraction to math can be reduced by adopting classroom reward and task structures which strengthen the math performance of females without adversely affecting that of males. (Author)

Shows that success experiences influence self-evaluations but not expectations of future success. (RL)

Dependent variables included three measures of effort, three measures of direction of behavior, and both quantity and quality performance. Method of payment affected quantity performance and effort. Goal setting affected quantity and quality performance and direction of behavior. Implications for designing and testing work motivation systems are…

A sample of 80 females in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 were presented with 10 of the Piagetian formal operations tasks. Analyses of the data indicated that as grade increased, mean scores on the 10 tasks also increased. (Author/JMB)