This paper focuses on teacher testing issues related to job analysis, test specification development, reliability, and validity. It emphasizes the conceptualization and operational definition of appropriate validity evidence to assess the quality of licensure testing decisions. It is suggested that the process of job, or practice, analysis would…

This article presents an interesting formula which organizes instruction for a course according to the proficiency to be attained at three different levels. (Editor)

Suggests offering of law school courses to engineering majors, making it possible for them to deal with interfaces between the two professions. (CC)

Discusses the nature of chemical engineering and the duty charged on chemical engineers. Indicates that adequate institutions are available for professional qualification at various levels. (CC)

The School of Allied Medical Professions at The Ohio State University has developed job descriptions in occupational therapy, and is in the process of developing curriculum guides to educate for performance in these job descriptions. (Authors)

Summarizes recent studies based on the contingency model of leadership effectiveness, which suggest why research has failed to show that leadership training and experience increase organizational performance. The contingency model postulated that group performance depends on the match between situational favorableness, i.e., the leader's control…

Reorganizes and simplifies occupational requirements and characteristics with which counselors and clients must cope in planning. (Author)

Correlations of job satisfaction with selected managerial behavior. (RA)

Tabulation of the color discrimination requisites of a representative sample of jobs revealed that the majority of jobs require little or no color perception aptitude. Jobs requiring color discrimination were listed by Dictionary of Occupational Titles for the use of counselors in the guidance of clients with defective color vision. (Author)

Empirical data obtained from an exploratory study of the task-oriented information-processing behavior of information specialists were analyzed in seeking to identify useful predictors of job performance. Implications of the study relative to selection, training, and supervision are discussed, and suggestions for further research are indicated.…

Explains and lists the twelve criteria to be used in the job analysis survey which is part of Phase I of the Knapp School Library Manpower Project. (JB)

Article from TRAINING TECHNOLOGY, v1 n1 pS1-S6, Sep 1969, a supplement to EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

Reviewed and analyzed selected federal court cases to determine the criteria used by the courts in their assessment of job analyses in the development and validation of selection tests. Presents a set of standards which delineates the components and characteristics of a job analysis necessary to withstand legal scrutiny. (Author)

A study in San Jose, California, measured the comparable worth of jobs to the city, and helped to settle the country's first municipal strike over the issue of equal pay for comparative worth. The comparable worth concept has important implications for collective bargaining in female-dominated occupations. (Author/MJL)