This bulletin, designed to be of assistance to those interested in employing and utilizing teacher aides, presents (1) a general account of current thinking on the rationale, use, and effects of teacher aides in public school programs and (2) the results of a descriptive research study designed to determine the status of the teacher aide in both…

An analysis of survey responses from a sample of medical laboratory technicians on competency characteristics for their occupation is presented in this document. (Medical laboratory technician is one of seventeen occupation groups included in this research.) The competencies are reported in five categories: (1) those competencies selected by the…

In response to P.L. 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act), the paper provides a suggested system for developing job descriptions and career ladders and lattices for paraprofessionals working with the handicapped with particular emphasis for those working with the severely/profoundly handicapped and in mainstreaming programs.…

The occupational analysis contains a brief job description, presenting for the occupation of plumbing 12 detailed task statements which specify job duties (tools, equipment, materials, objects acted upon, performance knowledge, safety considerations/hazards, decisions, cues, and errors) and learning skills (science, mathematics/number systems, and…

A time and cost study and a work sampling study were conducted during the period of June 1974 to November 1974 in the Central Technical Services department of the Cornell University Library System. This department renders acquisitions and cataloging services to all the endowed college and departmental libraries in the system except the Hotel…

Three workshops were held to acquaint interested parties with the growing need to prepare persons with non-standard physical characteristics for successful employment as Library/Media Technical Assistants (L/MTA's). The kinds of handicapped persons considered were the partially sighted, the totally blind, the partially deaf, the totally deaf, and…

This study contains two investigations conducted as part of a larger research project. "Job Training in the School Sector." The overall goals of the investigations include the following: (a) to analyze the jobs of school principals in the compulsory school, tutors in teacher training, and teachers in Labor Market Training (LMT); (b) to…

The booklet is a checklist to provide information about the tasks of the physical therapist in the Air Force physical therapy career ladder. The first major section is on background information; there are multiple choice questions on job attitudes, places of employment, future plans, and general types of duty. From a list of 137 pieces of physical…

This self-instructional learning packet is one part of a competency-guided program for instructional supervisor preparation developed by the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project. This training packet is intended to teach supervisors how to generate well-organized, thorough job descriptions. Given information on the budget,…

This document reports the results of a 1976 survey of state level agencies for community colleges. The purpose of the study was to (1) determine which state community college agencies have staff positions responsible for equal employment/affirmative action; and (2) to identify the nature, role, and responsibilities of the position. Forty states…

In order to eliminate some of the titles assigned to paraprofessionals engaged in school instructional matters and to promote a degree of uniformity it is recommended that two types of title designations be recognized, both of which would permit two levels of classification. If the paraprofessional efforts, as written into job descriptions, are…

Revised class specifications are provided for professional staffing in public libraries of various sizes in New York state. Descriptions are provided for each job within the civil service hierarchy: library assistant, library trainee, librarian I-IV (including special services), and the various grades of library assistant director and director.…

This report is an attempt to develop a comprehensive picture of the biomedical equipment technician (BMET), who spends at least 50 percent of his time repairing and maintaining biomedical equipment. In order to alert potential employers to the technician's capabilities, and to provide information on establishing training programs, the report…

This study was to determine the tasks 4-H project leaders performed, to secure leaders' and agents' opinions concerning the tasks that should be performed by 4-H project leaders, and to determine the opinions of 4-H project leaders and extension agents concerning the qualifications of 4-H project leaders to perform 55 selected tasks.…

This study of skill transferability between missile production and nondefense industries provides the necessary data to help formulate retraining and other programs designed to help workers adjust to cutbacks in defense spending. This technical appendix to the project report contains the data upon which the report's conclusions are based. The…