Media specialist competencies developed by the Alabama Commission for the Preparation of Educational Media Personnel are outlined under six major categories: instruction, management, organization and circulation, design and preparation, selection and acquisition systems, and pacesetting and innovative instructional systems. (JT)

Noting the need to define the terms used for policies which are changing the role of admissions offices, the author defines "open admissions" as "universal opportunity for post-secondary schooling" and points out changes in the core tasks of recruiting, selecting, counseling, and management of student records and data. (JT)

The role and needed skills of the academic department chairman are examined: (1) planning, (2) communicating, representing, negotiating, coordinating, and facilitating functions, (3) problem solving (including committee selection), and (4) organizing and administering (including schedules and recruitment, faculty involvement, and staff…

Clarifies the terminology involving the terms "Laboratory Technician,""Laboratory Assistant," and "Laboratory Steward" and describes the effective use of the science technician. Groups the various tasks of the technician and enumerates the duties involved in each group. (GS)

The study aimed at identifying the skills taught in two-year accounting programs compared to tasks performed by program graduates. Findings indicated a strong relationship between training and job tasks and that employment opportunities were available in a variety of work environments. (AC)

The author examines concepts involved in the rapidly developing field of wage and salary administration and discusses means by which the field can be developed into a professional discipline. (TA)

This historical review describes the basic curriculum of the 1890s, the shift to occupational analysis and the cross section approach in the 1920s, a combination of traditional and cross sectional approaches by the 1940s, the effect of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the impact of the Perkins Act and the educational reform movements of…

Describes Statistical Work Analysis Teams (S.W.A.T.), which marry the two factors necessary for successful statistical analysis with the personal nature of attribute data into a single effort. Discusses S.W.A.T. project guidelines, implementation of the first S.W.A.T. projects, team training, and project completion. (CT)

Recommends that, when a meaningful principal's job description is lacking, a cooperative approach involving the principal and superintendent or principal's immediate supervisor should be used to produce a mutually agreed-upon document containing tasks, priority rankings, and strategies. Provides method for determining the priority of each task.…

The basic elements of personnel administration are defined and examined and the interaction between the elements are described. The elements include job analysis, job classification, recruitment, selection, induction into the organization, evaluation of job performance, and termination. (MLW)

Discusses the need for improvement in personnel selection systems for physically demanding jobs. Reviews the literature on the physiological background underlying selection strategies, assessment of human physical abilities, the measurement of physical requirements of jobs, and physical abilities personnel selection studies. (JAC)

Interviews and questionnaires were administered to a varied group of professional social change agents. A four-category typology of change agent types was developed from an inductive analysis of the data. (Author)

This paper describes some results of a collaborative effort between the University of Pittsburgh and the Air Force to develop advanced troubleshooting training for F-15 maintenance technicians. The focus is on the cognitive task methodology used in the development of three intelligent tutoring systems to inform their instructional content and…

This "Guide" is intended for educators who have been mandated to develop or modify an educational program's curriculum. The guide presupposes the formulation of an exit-profile and focuses exclusively on activities after the exit-profile has been developed. The development of a curriculum is based on an exit-profile that mirrors the…

The author relates rules of program development to skills development courses, emphasizes the importance of familiarization with the job for which the training is intended, discusses the types of instruction available for program presentation, and discusses some specific uses of audiovisual materials and tests. (AG)