Identifies problems in codifying vocational knowledge, including inappropriate dualisms such as theoretical versus practical and omission of important tacit knowledge. Outlines Polanyi's ideas about tacit knowledge and presents a knowledge taxonomy as a possible strategy for codification and advocates a holistic teaching approach. (Contains 52…

Technological advances have created unlimited opportunities in education. Training and technology have merged to create new methods referred to as technology-based training. The purpose of this study was to identify organizations that hire agriculture and life sciences students for positions involving technology-based training and identify…

The article attempts to identify the need for personal skills, interpersonal skills, task skills, and organization skills in the development of the sales manager. (Author)

A preliminary inventory of functions performed by educational linking agents was constructed from a review and analysis of conceptual and descriptive literature and from examination of instruments available to assess required knowledge, skills, and attitudes of linking agents. The functions are derived from clusters of work-related activities,…

This guide was designed to assist superintendents and school business officials in evaluating and allocating custodial workloads. Part I illustrates a method for equalizing custodial workloads, using a representative employee's performance as a model for measuring the workloads of other employees. The administrator is shown how to select this…

The Bureau of the Census and Navy occupational classification systems are outlined and examined for the purpose of identifying the civilian occupations which correspond to each Navy rating. The procedures for and problems encountered in matching occupations from the census system (a public information document designed to portray an accurate…

A survey of 18 Illinois libraries resulted in the identification of 1,615 tasks performed within the library environment. Each task is rated and scaled including: (1) performance standards (four scales); (2) the task environment; (3) the extent to which a task concerns data, people, and things; (4) the mathematics, language and reasoning levels…

The Lincoln Parish School Board, with assistance from the Gulf South Research Institute staff, conducted a 10-week pilot student-teacher aide program in which 72 college education majors worked as teacher aides in eight high schools and elementary schools for approximately 10 hours a week at $1.50 per hour. Consultants for the program were hired…

A t a briefing sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Individual Training, members of the Human Resources Research Office reported on four projects using job and task analysis in different training situations. Wor k Unit STOCK was a training program designed to develop training management procedures for heterogeneous ability…

The Operating Procedures Manual of the Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC) of the St. Paul Public Schools provides information on work stations, job details, mail handling, telephone communications, materials acquisition, materials utilization, and membership. Use of the operating manual is reported to have given staff…

The standard is for grading nonsupervisory jobs involved in reproducing, collecting, and caring for insect collections. The work requires practical knowledge of the characteristics of insects and their needs, and skill in observing and handling them. The levels of insects production worker WG-3, WG-4, and WG-5 are differentiated by describing the…

The standard covers nonsupervisory work involved in the manufacture and repair of parts and items of equipment which require the use of various types of standard and special machine tools and their attachments to machine metals, metal alloys, and other materials. The work requires skills ranging from initial planning of necessary work sequences to…

In this limited study, two areas were of primary concern: the media coordinator's responsibilities and the media coordinator's personality traits. School superintendents and media coordinators were asked to rank the importance of eleven media responsibilities. They were also asked to rank the types of personality traits a media coordinator should…

The purpose of this book is to provide a practical guide for persons who are responsible for the issuance of the small magazine. It deals with accepted methods and techniques used in getting out such periodicals, with standards and sources of content material, with various matters relating to physical appearance, and with executive and…