The author stresses the importance of planning in setting up company training programs and the need for performance and instructional objectives. (MF)

Tests predictions concerning the effectiveness of four different strategies for teaching 3-to 4-year-old children how to master a difficult construction task. Subjects were 32 preschool children. ( BD)

Examining the effects of the noxiousness of an automobile accident, probability of being in an accident, and efficacy of safe driving practices on driver education students, the results disclosed that all three independent variables affected attitudes toward safety, and performance on the simulator. (Author/BW)

Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (IRT)

This study investigated the effects of videotape feedback on group and self-satisfaction. Subjects' post-meeting satisfaction with group performance was significantly altered after receiving objective feedback through videotape playbacks. Post-meeting self-satisfaction was not significantly changed. Implications of these findings are discussed.…

Presents the results of a study of the background of daily newspaper editorial writers and of the way editorial writers obtain information and perform their tasks. (GW)

Third and fourth grade boys classified as impulsive, reflective, fast/accurate and slow/inaccurate responded to matching tasks varying in the number of dimensions involved. Reflective children performed better on the task with fewer dimensions, while impulsive children were better on the task with many dimensions. (JKS)

The developmental nature of outerdirectedness was investigated among 40 educable mentally retarded children using two independent measures of outerdirectedness. (Author)

The researchers explored factors related to negativism in 27 elementary age autistic children, where negativism was defined as the consistent avoidance of a correct response in a multiple choice discrimination task. (Author)

This study tested the hypothesis that situational factors act as determinants of achievement behavior and that these factors affect the behavior of pre and postadolescent groups differently. (Author/SB)

A sample of 86 college students aged 18 to 35 years of age were asked to solve three formal operations tasks and to participate in a problem-finding task. No relation was found between performance on problem-finding and the formal operations task. (JMB)

While there is no formula for statistically analyzing the amount of payroll waste inherent in a school's staff, savings will develop if the administration as a whole takes time to ask careful questions about the use of time and goals to be accomplished. (Author)

The results suggest that principals who exhibit strong Initiating Structure tend to have teachers with a substantial Professional Zone of Acceptance irrespective of the Consideration dimension of leadership. (Author)