Presents an evaluation design which, because of its simplicity and the ease with which the data collected may be analyzed, is ideal for use in the "real world" as a practical method for evaluating the impact of training on employee behavior. (CT)

The article examines the nature of performance deficits in exceptional learners as they relate to the ability to perform complex cognitive tasks. (PHR)

A survey of 164 college students assessed their aptitudes, performance, outside work commitments as well as their perception of their environment, satisfaction, and affective and somatic complaints. Several casual themes linking environment perceptions, performance, and affective and somatic complaints were apparent. (Author/LC)

The contribution of individual differences in physiological arousal to intellective assessment in 29 junior high school learning disabled children was studied. (Author/PHR)

This study identified 100 performance tasks within 10 functional categories for distributive education teacher-coordinators who use the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium individualized instruction system. The tasks provide an empirically based description of the learning manager's role. (SK)

Practitioners in continuing medical education should evaluate the impact educational activities have on physical competence, physical performance, or patient health status. (CT)

Investigated the use of cognitive coping strategies in meeting the stressfulness of a testing situation and the relation of these strategies to performance and test anxiety. Rationalization and isolation were associated with better performance, preoccupation and resignation with higher anxiety and poorer performance, and denial with lower anxiety.…

The study compared the cognitive, affective, and perceptual role taking skills of 38 learning disabled (LD) children (ages 5 to 8) with those of a control group of normal children. Ss were administered three role taking tasks which measured their skills in each of the domains. The results demonstrated a role taking deficit in the LD children.…

Stating that management training programs usually contribute little to organization results because they focus on improving personal characteristics, the authors describe a training and development strategy and training design to produce performance-improvement results. Programs using this strategy are described. (MF)

Parents, teachers, and athletic coaches have a primary responsibility in attempting to elicit desirable changes in the locus of control of their children, students, or athletes. (JD)

Class size and teaching methods as they affect each other are examined. The theory of class size and ways of determining when small classes are needed are discussed as well as how these factors affect educational goals. (PHR)

An approach to human performance based on economic concepts is described; the human system employs utility considerations to determine allocation of its limited resources. The efficiency of those resources in performance depends on parameters characterizing the task and the performer. Models and interpretations of dual task performance are…

Twelve examples of sex stereotyping and research relating to the specific examples are provided to demonstrate that differential treatment of gifted girls is necessary to assure they will be able to contribute to society their full potential. (PHR)

The relationship between sex role relationships of math and verbal ability was studied in two groups of junior high school students--a group of 278 mathematically gifted students and a comparison group of 115 students of varying abilities and socioeconomic backgrounds. (PHR)

It is more satisfactory to use a mechanically produced prediction of candidates' student teaching grades (based on multiple selection criteria) for selection of candidates for teacher education programs than to use any other single criterion. Greater specificity of variables leads to more accurate prediction of student teaching performance. (SB)